Abstract:
This article is about the identification of juvenile
delinquency in the riverbank area of Banjarmasin, South
Kalimantan. Banjarmasin is known as the City of a Thousand
Rivers because it has many rivers which are used as settlements
so most of the people. Currently there tends to be a lot of juvenile
delinquency that occurs involving school-age children and they
mostly live on riverbanks. One of the causes of juvenile
delinquency is the weak resistance of adolescents to
environmental influences. This research uses a descriptive
qualitative method. Data source for BK teachers, students of
SMPN 25 Banjarmasin who are in the riverbank area. The
technique of collecting data is by observation, interview, and
documentation. The results of this research are the types of
delinquency found in students who live in riverbank areas,
namely, drug use, liquor, free sex, stealing, physical and verbal
bullying. supervision from parents and the surrounding
environment, many students' parents work as casual labourers,
factory workers, and their mothers work as household assistants
so that there is very little guidance for children because of the
focus on earning a living, lack of inculcation of religious values
and moral values in the environment where adolescents grow and
develop.
