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