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
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
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
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
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