Street Children ( anak jalanan)

Children who either live with or without family, hanging out individually or in gangs in different places and surviving by begging, working in someone’s employment, robbery, or working in the sex trade.


I had just spent an entire hour following an online discussion about Jogja street children. What I find very interesting are the varying reactions from people -- pity, resentment, ignorance, apathy, compassion, indifference...

I decided to copy some of the posts that were on that online discussion. It seems as if a few of the members of that particular discussion group have figured some stuff out about the street kids.

Prostitution Street Children In Jogjakarta

Street children can be divided into two categories based on their relationships with their family: children of the street and children on the street. Generally, children of the street refer to the children who have been disconnected with the family and live in the street. On the contrary, children on the street still live with their family although they earn money from the street. Usually the street children from the last category are at the age under five and at the school age. Whereas, the street children

who live far away from the families are at the teen ages. The prostituted street children are adolescent people which are categorized as children of the street. This study intends to discuss the prostitution life of street children. Their process from the beginning of street life until getting into prostitution life.

This study explores the life of ten girls prostituted street children in Yogyakarta. The informants are gathered with the snowball sampling system with indepth interview technique.

The study shows that the prostitution of street children are categorized as prostituting street children and prostituted street children. They leave home because of the uncomfortable atmosphere at home like domestic violence and indifferent treatment from the family. Generally, children come from the unwealthy family who has little attention to the important of children’s education. The relationship between children and their family have lost as soon as they are out of the family ties. It also happens to their education which is disconnected too. The low level of education, the disconnection relationship with the family and the street life which tends to be free
and hard, often make children are very permissive toward the free sexual relationship.

The relationship built between the children and their customer are based on two categorization, first, the usual relationship between street children and their customer and the relationship among couple, second, the relationship between the children and the men in the street community. From the categorization mentioned before, the street children who give sexual service are paid with money, goods, and protection. The street life which is always free because they always depend on their friend and lover, lessen their daily needs including their life style need as the actualization. According to the reproductive health, the prostituted street children has done the abortion and suffered with the sexual transmitted diseases for changing spouse. The hard street life yields the daily threats of violence and abuse, like physical and sexual abused done by their peer group of street children and also by the security guards.

The street children who get into the prostitution are caused by influence fromtheir friend, life style, and the sexual stimulus to make sexual contact. The threeinfluences are also made the street children choosing to exploit their sexuality asanother alternative to earn money.

Aspect of Legal Protection for Street Children

Private Aspect of Legal Protection for Street Children still hasn’t gotten protection measure yet. Street children are the responsibility of all parties, especially for parents. The parents are the important people to arrange them so their activities can be arranged well in their life. Children rights are protected by Convention On The Rights Of Child on 1989 (already ratificated by KEPPRES No. 36 on 1990. Also in Private Law.
Protection for the street children can be done well if the parties who have a role in children protection can cooperate and coordinate well. The parties are: Children Protection Institution (LPA), Legal Aid Institution (LBH).
To keep the street children is the responsibility all people in order to be the good generation.

Stop Give Money To Street Childrens

With so we help them from the risks and dangerous to give the opportunity to stretch their hands to welcome the foundation and do things that are useful for the future soon.

Through our actions and the opportunities that we provide, we are indirectly restore the human rights of children, according to the UN Convention on children's rights (ratified Presidential Decree No.36/1990 RI):
- Right to life
- The right to grow and develop
- The right to protection
- The right to participate

With us stop to give "easy money" means we have to be passive in the volunteer effort of recovery human rights of children. On the one hand we yearn to see them but if we give money, they will still like it and would not welcome help from foundations, which they intend to help. On the other hand, not giving the money so we hope their future will be better from now.

Date Dec. 5 was set as a Volunteer Day globally. In order to commemorate the day, on 5 December 2004, the United Nations in this UNV (United Nations Volunteer) campaigns in Jakarta for the care of street children with the theme "Stop Give Money, Give Us Chance." With this campaign hopes to change the paradigm of giving to the community
street children and lay volunteers who support the campaign.

what can we do so that they are not in the street again?

Many parties and foundations that have been trying to help them with provide free school, free food and housing for layover them. However, they still return to the road. Why? Because your money!

Because every day they get "easy money" at least Rp.25,000 - that means in a month they can earn Rp. 750.000,. The amount is large enough, no wonder they choose to remain in way.

But if left, 10-20 years they will remain November and so can become a civilian living in the streets and expressed children and the poor are not educated. This will be the vicious circle in our countries.

They will not have any other choice, what can we do so that they are not in the street again?

Educations Quality Solution

Improvement of education quality is choice also orientation of nation civilization development as [the] invesment of meter nation-building [the] future length. This orientation absolute conducted because of education is believed as [the] main medium development of human resource quality.
In the context of that's revitalization of education policy continued become government attention. One of that revitalization form [is] policy of education system management from policy that initialy sentralistik turn into desentralistik. As [the] logical consequence from form of education decentralization [is] appearance of education management policy base on school (school based management).
With system of education management base on school are referred [as] assumed education quality can be improved and also role and society and education institution initiative mount micro (school) will more mount.

Aspect Law Protection to Public Road Child

Private Aspect of Legal Protection for Street Children still hasn’t gotten protection measure yet. Street children are the responsibility of all parties, especially for parents. The parents are the important people to arrange them so their activities can be arranged well in their life. Children rights are protected by Convention On The Rights Of Child on 1989 (already ratificated by KEPPRES No. 36 on 1990. Also in Private Law.
Protection for the street children can be done well if the parties who have a role in children protection can cooperate and coordinate well. The parties are: Children Protection Institution (LPA), Legal Aid Institution (LBH).
To keep the street children is the responsibility all people in order to be the good generation.

What that disease of public road child

Much diseases that maybe public road child meet. For example is disease of breath channel. Such as those which we know, public road child is become accustomed to “street”. They a more regular beyond their house, around smoke – vehicle smoke, because [it is true] most of them as [the] public road street musician. Not miss from pollution of usage consequence air fuel have the pollution of high from vehicle – vehicle that they meet. Not to mention, house consequence those in less competent for dwelt. Indoor air-refreshing Obsolence because high indoor density makes indoor air transfer indisposed and breathed in by them.

Poorness very related to dystrophy. [it is true], usually that dystrophy distress is people – indigent people that will never fulfill need gizi with asupan food suggested, “four healthy five perfect”. This often experienced by child – public road child. Dystrophy will cause some serious effects like failure of physical growth, go down it intellegence growth, enthusiasm insuffiency works, degrade productivity, and degrade durability to disease that result death. Even at balita, dystrophy very has an effect on to brain growth that its growth process happened during the period. If this condition is let, public road child will become labourer generation that is not high income impecunious alias, that unable to give nutriment at its child until cycle is redone.

Public road Child is one among some child groups that must get special protection because express existence of various of treatments ekploitasi and abuse to they. For example, existence of sexual abuse from adult or from humanity of public road child. . Organ of public road child reproduction (Elastic) woman often draw fires sexual violence and rentan to infection of sexual disease, entered HIV/AIDS, consequence free seks that is not safe. Nevertheless until now risk is referred [as] have not yet or even unrealize at all. This condition because a large part of public road childs have not yet knew, even not to know beans about pandemic that disseminated pass by that transfer of body fluid. As for perpetrator of sexual violence usually indigenous to themselves community, namely child of men public road that average also not comprehend risk intended. That thing can cause fatal for their reproduction health, because in community of public road child there is strong tendency behavior free seks that is not safe.

Usually public road child getting the “knowledge” seksnya from friend coeval or older public road child, good porn book, film/Porn VCD or peep one who sexual intercourse. Easy its getting the knowledge hits seks influences attitude of public road child to sexual intercourse. In consequence,, of great importance cater them with lesson about reproduction health, although even also in reality very difficult give lesson on reproduction health to child – public road child. They sometimes have sexual intercourse assumption outside marry as [the] fair matter, in consequence, is business from child of itself public road and not bother others importance.

If to correct reading, morally coitus outside marry clear diharamkan. Despitefully, from facet of coitus health that tidaksehat, and surely for children that still underage, contain fatal risk, begin at sexual contagion (PMS) till threat terkenaHIV/AIDS. What a pity if children that still must that protection diseases distress that maybe previous not they know. In consequence,, difficulty come what may at the site, public road children must get addition knowledge about the importance keep in good health reproduction.

Violence Against Street Children

Number of Children in the street Indonesia have increased rapidly in recent years. The economic crisis is believed to have a big increase this amount. In 1998, Minister of Social Affairs (in the period regime Abddurahman Wahid, the Ministry has been removed) at that time stated that an increasing number of street children around 400% (Kompas, 4/12/98). Currently, the estimated number of street children in Indonesia about 50,000 children and 10% are women (Anwar & Irwanto in Irwanto et al, 1999).
Semarang, the capital of Central Java Province, which is the largest city-to five in Indonesia, did not escape the presence of street children. Mapping conducted by the office of the Ministry of Social Affairs, Central Java (1999), there are around 1,500 children. Other sources estimate around 2,000 street children (Tabloid Manunggal, edition V / Thn XVII / April-May 1998). Before the crisis occurred, PAJS (1997) estimate there are 700 children. Thus, an increasing number of almost 200% after the crisis.
Increasing the number of street children is a phenomenon that rapid social need to get serious attention from various parties. Attention is not merely pushed by the large number of street children, but because the circumstances of the poor street children in which these groups have their rights often accidentally struck.
Before discussing further, the definition of street children meant that in writing this is? Someone aged below 18 years who spent some time or all the time in the streets with activities to get money or to maintain life.

Victims interminable
Children who should still be in play and learning environment, when he went to live or even on the road, then terbayangkah life that they passed? Scanning vision when we met in the street, the activities they do at the crossroad way, for example, already contains a variety of risks such as the accident-prone or risk of disease due to often inhale toxic poison-motorized vehicles. Navigate the more they see the night life in a city park, market, empty buildings, emperan stores, or car-car train in the station, they can terlelap without a mat. The danger is that vision-bayangi? Especially when girls are also found in there? Does more integrated in with them, we will know how the pattern of relationship between them, with those streets, with the general public, state officials, and other parties. Terbayangkah their position?
It is no secret that the street is the world of violence and exploitation. Contention for the race always ended with the defeat without any victory of any party. However, this just continues to progress. An adult-it is not necessarily able to mengarunginya well. Especially for the children!
Various studies, reports programs, and monitoring and reporting the results of the mass media has been drawing a lot of bad situations experienced by street children Semarang. Monitoring PAJS (1997) in the area of Tugu Muda in the period of July-December 1996, records of 22 cases of violence against street children 19 cases (86.3%) by security officers (police, Satpol PP, and the TNI) should provide protection against them. Likewise It also expressed in the report of YDA (1997) stated that the biggest danger is most often experienced by children in the street is the police in which 91% of children have experienced torture caught (Permadi & Ardhianie? Subscribed.; 1997). In addition to cases of violence experienced personally, violence against the community are also often occur. Residents of Plymouth may still occur cases of assault and destruction in the area stop by the house Weak Gempal in 1997 by a group of unknown people that followed the terror-terror against street children (Info Streets, special edition, September 1997). After experiencing bad fortune, street children who terhimpun in PAJS again become victims of violence by the state through the statement of the Regional Municipal Government officials prohibit Newbridge PAJS to move because the organization is considered illegal (Wawasan, 4 April 1998). Cases that occurred recently is the eviction of street children from the home stop by the head of the NGO of the managers themselves and attack a group of people against street children in Manggala where the two girls become victims of rape group (Alliance; 2000).
Other violence is violence and sexual exploitation. Almost all the street children of women had experienced sexual harassment, especially for children who live in the street. When asleep, they often become victims of a friend or i-community street, for example digerayangi body and equipment vitalnya. Other forms of violence is rape. Equivalent (1999), the report states that 30% of women, street children to sexual relations as a result of the first rape. I rarely rape by a group of people known by the term pangris line or Japan. In the area of Simpang Lima, these cases occur often done by a certain group of people. Then, not long this can be done and imposed by our coverage of the mass media about alleged exploitation and violence against dozens of street children, which could be done by pendampingnya own (see for example; Radar Semarang & insight, 2 September 2000; Kompas, 4 September 2000).
Women, street children are also known to be vulnerable victims of commercial sexual exploitation include prostitution, trafficking for the purpose of sexual abuse and pornography. In 1997, there YDA record 8% of street children in Semarang workers. The next year increased to 28% (PSWs Undip; 1998) and increased again to 46.4% (equivalents; 1999). Indications of trafficking children for prostitution with a target street children of women who have been raised by the equivalents (1999). In an indication of its development is increasingly strong. Results of monitoring Foundation equivalents in the period January-June 2000 noted that there are 10 children sold into the region of Batam and Riau (Shalahuddin,-subscribed.; 2000). Pornography case against street children are also alleged to occur. However, so far there are no data that revealed it.

Removing Stigmatisasi
Cases of violence experienced by street children until revealed to the public believes only a small part of cases of violence that often occur in the lives of street children. Therefore, it is not too excessive when it is said that street children are always in a situation that threatens the development of physical, mental and social and even their lives.
In the situation of violence faced by the ongoing journey in life, then that is the lesson inherent in street children who will form a new value and take action, which put out violence as a way to maintain life. When entering the adult, most likely they will become one of the perpetrators of violence and exploitation of street children. Without any effort, then we have a role and make the children as victims interminable.
Of course? care for the fate of street children? it is not expected to linger. There must be concrete efforts to make improvements on the situation of street children or even? The Utopian? the existence of street children. This effort will be a major impact if there is involvement of the bonds and cooperation of various parties such as governments, Non-Government Organizations (NGOs / NGOs), social organizations and society, academia and the general public.
Challenges heaviest of the efforts of various parties involved with the care for street children is stigmatisasi. The view is still dominant sentence as a street child? Wild child?? Dirty? ? source of commotion, and? perpetrators of crimes. Stigmatisasi the existence of this of course will take the full prejudice and will tend to legitimize violence in the streets in the face of street children. Had it happened that various forms of violence and despicable human or not to remove life, the event is not necessarily a tizzy and prod the public conscience. Or there can be grateful that the judge and that the event was acceptable by the street children.
Removing stigmatisasi above are very important. Should realize that street children are victims either as victims in the family, community street, and victims of development. For the protection campaign against street children needs to be done continuously for at least encourage the parties outside of street children in order to stop the actions of violence against street children. Through this campaign also encouraged the growth of empathy to the street children so that there is a concrete involvement of the various parties through various activities for the changes.
Next? Head down to street race, learn and work with street children to make changes.

The Definition of Street Children

From the results of the research foundation Nanda (1996: 112) there are some general characteristics of street children among others: a. Being in public places (streets, markets, shops, places of entertainment) for 24 hours. b. Less educated (mostly school dropouts, and very few have passed the primary school). c. Derived from the families can not afford (mostly urban people, and some of it is not clear family). d. Conduct economic activities (to do the work in the informal sector).

Street children, usually come from families that work and weak economies. Street children grow and develop with the background of street life and familiar with poverty, persecution, loss and love, so burdensome life and make negative behavior.

They are living in the local city, in other cities nearby, or in other provinces. There are street children who live with her mother in a different city with a place to live because of his father's job, married again, or divorced. There are roads that are still children living with the family, who live separately but still often return to the place of family, that there is never live with their families or even children who do not know the family.

Activities Street Children
According to M. Ishaq (2000), there are three ketegori of street children, namely: (1) find satisfaction; (2) carry on living, and (3) immoral actions. The activities of street children is closely related to their mangkal day-to-day, that is, in the plaza, cinemas, road, cross the road, railway stations, terminals, markets, shops and malls.

Factors Causing Children Becoming Street Children
Circumstances city invite high street children. The densely populated city, and many families have problems that make children less nutrition, less attention, less education, less affection and warmth of life, and lose the right to play, cheer, socializes, and independent living, or even the removal of children persecuted mind, physical, and sexual abuse by family, friends, others more mature.

Among street children, some of which are often move between cities. They grow and develop with the background of street life and familiar with poverty, persecution, loss and love, so burdensome life and make negative behavior.

A child terhempas from his family, then become street children caused by many things. Treatment to children is a major cause children to become street children. Persecution that covers their mental and physical. Other than that, in general, street children come from families that the work is heavy and weak economies.

The social phenomenon of street children, especially visible in real big cities, especially after the economic crisis triggered in Indonesia since last five years. The Ministry of Social Affairs in 1998 in 12 large cities reported that the number of street children as many as 39,861 people and about 48% of the children down to the new road since 1998. Nationally it is estimated there are as many as 60,000 to 75,000 street children. DEPSOS noted that 60% of street children have dropped out of school (drop out) and 80% still have relationships with family, and as much as 18% of street children is women who face a high risk of sexual violence, rape, pregnancy outside marriage and infected Sexual Diseases ( STIs) and HIV / AIDS.

Generally, street children have almost no access to education services, health and protection. Their tend rejected by society and often raking (sweeping) by the local city government.
Indonesian

Two Street Children Accepted Lecture at UI

Two street children that every day integrated terminal in Davao City, West Java, had received at the Faculty of Cultural Science, University of Indonesia (FIB-UI) 2008-2009 school year.

They are the Ayatullah Khaimi and Aish Chi, street children who act as street terminal in Davao and trade asongan in the train.

Founder of the terminals Doncaster school for free, Nur Rochim Tuesday (19 / 8) in Depok, proud of the achievement reached by children asuhnya because of limited facilities and infrastructure, teaching-learning they can pass on the higher become the favorite in Indonesia.

"I just think that they can not afford not despair and do not minder, keep learning to achieve the ideals," he said.

He said that street children who attend school in the area is free to set their own schedule. They can still perform daily activities without disturbing the hours of study. In the day, there are three sessions of learning, ie, morning, afternoon and evening. With the flexible schedule that students can follow lessons.

Initially, said Nur Rochim, many street children, beggar junior, and the street to wander around the terminal in Davao. Then, the idea appears to embrace them through education. That is the concept of the early birth of the school terminals. "My Life on to establish such schools to change their lifestyles that seem brutal, illegal, and wishes," said Nur Rochim.

The school is free for the street children, such as a beggar and delicate, which operate around the terminal. Over time, because of the high cost of education, the school owner is free to increase sharply. The declining ability of the economy down due to the increase of fuel price increases with the cost of entry is relatively expensive school in Depok.

Indonesian children

Laws on child protection has been set by our government, but there are still many violations of the laws, either by the parents, the environment, or the school should provide security and full rights to the children.

About free education made by the State, seems still far from the fire in pelaksaannya. There are still many Indonesian children who must willingly "school" in the street. Bureau statistical branch of the central state when the placenta is approximately 200 thousand children living in the placenta or in the street. Most are in denpasar and naughty in the region, they live with a variety of complex problems and with various pressure.

The concept of the ideal of "living in a harmonious environment" as put by the Conference at the United Nations Children's, is still a beautiful dream for the children our nation.

The phenomenon Street Children

Development in all areas of the city seems not only to provide a positive atmosphere for the life of the community. However, competition is also the birth of life, a phenomenon that appears on the life of poverty. The densely populated city and the many families that have been problematic to create many more children are less nutrition, less attention, less education, less affection and warmth of life, and lose the right to play, cheer, socializes and independent living. Even many cases that indicate increasing persecution against children, ranging mental pressure, physical violence, to sexual harassment, either by their own families, friends and other people.

Nowadays, the growth of street children in Indonesia increased, especially in large cities. Jakarta is one example, where we will be very easy to find street children in various places, ranging from red-light crossroads, railway stations, terminals, markets, shops, and even shopping malls. It is no secret that they are usually coordinated by a group of neat and professional, often referred to as the Mafia street children. Each member of this group has the task. There is every make mapped at the crossroad way, there is a set and met among others. Mafia exploit these children and make it as a farm business. And a more memprihatikan, this condition often with the approval of their parents own, which I rarely even play a role as part of the Mafia street children.

The composition of the displaced generally consists of children and the elderly. In 2006 there were 78.96 million children under the age of 18 years, 35.5% of the total population in Indonesia. Some 40% or 33.16 million of them live in urban areas and the remaining 45.8 million live in rural areas. Most children come from poor and underdeveloped, which does not have the ability to empower themselves, so vulnerable to violence, exploitation, gender inequalities, child trafficking and others. According to the report DEPSOS in 2004, including as many as 3,308,642 children into the category of displaced children.

Someone said to be street children, when aged under 18 years old, who use the road as a place to seek sustenance in the road and more than 6 hours a day. There are several types of street children, namely (1) street children who still have parents and live with their parents, (2) street children who still have parents but do not live with parents, (3) street children who do not already have the people but parents living with the family, and (4) street children who do not already have parents and do not live with the family.

Main Causes

Treatment to children is a major reason for children to become street children. This persecution includes physical and mental mistreatment. On the other, usually caused by the economic stimulus needs, which they must work to help parents and families.

The phenomenon of street children is a vicious circle of poverty access to the nation. The constraints faced by the mobility of street children is high enough.

Children in the house that led out not stop after a rare return to the streets. This phenomenon often occurs walapun stop the house has provided free education, free food and a roof to shelter for them. Why did this happen? Because the money. In the street, they can obtain with easy money, which is usually a minimum of Rp. 20,000 per day. Means in a month they can earn at least Rp. 600,000. The amount of this of course is relatively big for a child under the age of 18 years and life in the streets.

Who is the responsibility of Street Children?

Law No. 20 of 2002 clearly stated, the children are entitled to protection from discrimination in the treatment, both economic exploitation and sexual abuse, of, cruelty, violence, persecution, injustice, and one other treatment. That means, not only parents who are responsible, but also government and the community. Parents who employ children under the age, will also clearly sanctioned.

Cases of violence (physical, psychological, and sexual) experienced by street children and revealed to the public is just a phenomenon, "iceberg" of the problem of violence that often occur in the lives of street children. Therefore, it is not too excessive when it is said that street children are always in a situation that threatens the development of physical, mental and social and even their lives. Violence is inherent in street children and shaping their personality in the future.

Meanwhile, law enforcement officers in Indonesia have not yet been a response to the protection of children. They do not put the protection of children as one of the main priority, because there are no elements politisnya. According to the Chairman of the Indonesian Commission for Child Protection (KPAI), Giwo Rubianto Wiyogo, organizers child protection in Indonesia, including government and law enforcement officers have not had a response to the protection of children. The number of street children in Indonesia more days any more increases in number. This last data that the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) figures out that 154,861 people, according to the National Commission for Child Protection (Komnas PA), almost half are in Jakarta. The rest are spread to other big cities such as Medan, Palembang, Batam, Serang, Bandung, Yogyakarta, Surabaya, Malang and Drogheda

I can not, and that street children has recently become a social phenomenon that is very important in the big city life. Their attendance is often considered a mirror of poverty cities. In the eyes of some members of the community, the existence of street children up to now still in as the "waste" that the city must be removed. However, those who want to be street children? None of them want him to become street children. Even they may often ask, why was born as a poor father. If they can demand justice, justice from whom? Who is concerned about the sound, and they? The 1945 Constitution article 34 paragraph 1 with a clear mandate, the very poor and abandoned children are kept by the state. Therefore the government should continue searching for effective strategies for handling poverty and the fate of displaced children. But street children are still likely to be still struggling alone.

Author: Suwardi

Fate of Street Children in Indonesia

For the people of Indonesia, street children is a form of human life is considered not useful and completely neglected. It is rare, they are outcast from the crowd by violence and growl-growl with a voice or a sentence that offensive. This is because the street children who diangap as shameful and disturb the peace for the people.

The lives of street children (anjal) certainly not separated from the street, sidewalk, bus terminal, railway station, and stalls, not even we seldom find them in various corners of the city. Plumpness of their passes with the day-to-day living far from home simply to find sustenance. Their job each day is mengamen, beg, and not infrequently even some of those desperate to make a variety of theft and other criminal acts. They do the work only to get a mouthful of rice in order to live.

Nevertheless, not many people who are concerned with the fate of the anjal this, including the government. Even the government tends to close the eyes to see all the events experienced anjal. Nonetheless, countries have the duty (the obligation) to develop a system of social security for all people and to empower the weak and not able to appropriate human dignity.

However, why street children in this overlooked? Is not the street children are also included in the category of people who are weak and should get the attention of many government? As a result of the government, the fate of street children are vacillating and not stabilized. They do not get a decent life.

In Yogyakarta, for example, in almost every crossroad-way crossroad, we can see the presence of street children. Not even close possibility, street children have been penetrated in various areas in Yogyakarta other. And, actually street children has been in everywhere, especially in large cities. In Jakarta, for example, the number of street children is very extraordinary amount. They can be found at the crossroad, or crossroad in the streets around the terminal.

Most of these street children are aged under ten years old and they should require a decent life and also still must get the intensive education in schools.

As a result of bad fortune that they are, and get less attention from the government directly, they must pass a small, with at street corners, in the terminal, at the station, in the alleys of town, or in the markets, with the conditions of life The misery and suffering. They also do not bench some education in the school as children their age, a neatly uniformed each day to learn in school.

It is acknowledged or not, the lives of street children get a less positive response from the community and the government. They are considered as "garbage" that people should be promising. But to remember, street children is also a normal human being who also need to eat, drink, love and attention, just like most other people.

But why they always promising community? We live in Indonesia have the order of life for the full social life. We will not be able to survive in this world without the help of others. Has become human nature that have a sense of mutual dependence with one another. But, the reality is that many people now consider the fate of poor street children, even forgetting the human form of life and always completely lack any suffering at this time.

According to a survey conducted by the Faculty of Economic Demography Institute at the University of Indonesia (FEUI), 35 percent of street children do all the work not only on their own or only just enough to fill the bellies of their own. They do all the work for fulfilling the needs of economic helping families who is getting increasingly weakened.

So clearly that the street children do all the work, such as mengamen in the stalls, food, car, in front of the house, even they do nekad to theft, robbery or other criminal offense, not solely on their alone. They all do it because didesak economic factors, the family is getting more erratic.

The problem of street children are not directly ignored the community. They also receive less attention from the public and less attention from the government. In the case of handling street children, the government is still considering a less serious about their fate.

It is clear, now that this is still a lot of these street children not only in the corner of big cities alone, but have started entering the outskirts of the city and small cities.

Indeed, if the snow did we, the life of street children suffer and deficiency completely, because their jobs uncertain and available. As a result, their lives are not getting more competitive and find a suitable fit with what digembor tout the government, thus they vice versa. Because each day they always increase disuguhi staple that can not be affordable by families of street children.

In this case, the government must be quickly overcome the problems faced by street children so that they do not feel humiliated and exiled by the community.

Once again, they need attention and affection from all of us, and become the obligation of countries to seriously handle them. Thus welfare in Indonesia can be felt by all parties, including street children, without differences in social status.
By Miftahul A'la