Peranan Kantor Catatan Sipil Dalam Pencatatan Kependudukan di Kota Medan

Abstract

Population and Civil Registry office is one of the government agencies in charge of serving the community in terms of registration of births, deaths, marriages, divorces, children validation and recognition of children. The civil records is a record concerning a person's legal position. Population in terms of recording births, marriages, and divorces too many obstacles. Therefore, it appears some of the things that becomes the problem in this research is how the role of the Civil Registry Office in the birth registration and how the role of the Civil Registry Office in the registration of marriages and divorces. The study used normative juridical method, with a qualitative approach which refer to material sources of law, namely the study refers to the legal norms contained in various legal instruments. specifications in this research is descriptive analysis, collection procedures and data collection is done by using secondary data in the form of primary legal materials, secondary legal materials, tertiary legal materials, as the main data. The data obtained are then processed, analyzed, and interpreted logically and systematically using deductive reasoning. Based on the research results that the Department of Population and Civil Registry plays an important role in providing the maintenance service of Birth Certificates in Medan. This is in line with Government Regulation No. 37 Year 2007 on the Implementation of Law No. 23 of 2006 concerning Population Administration. Registration of marriage and divorce is a matter of urgent, even became an administrative requirements that must be done so that the marriage was clear evidence that marriage and divorce had taken place.