Intan Fitri Meutia, Bayu Sujadmiko, Dheka Ermelia Putri, Didik Kurniawan
Juvenile delinquency in Indonesia is increasingly alarming; this also affects the number of child prisoners that are increasing their prison years. For this reason, the program for fostering children in prisons also requires special attention from the government. Drawing in the empirical studies and descriptive data and document, the findings show that children at teenagers prisons or Youth Detention Center (YDC) get formal education but not optimal yet. This study focuses on why formal education in prisons is not optimal, and trying to find solutions or alternative policies so that children incarcerated in YDC have the opportunity to get formal education equivalent to other children in accordance with the Law National Education System for the implementation of education in Indonesia and the Child Criminal Justice System for organizing development activities at YDC.