KPAI Criticized Children's Military Barracks Without Professional Psychologist Assessment, Dedi Mulyadi: It's Better Not To Correct

JAKARTA - West Java (Jabar) Governor Dedi Mulyadi said that the Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) should not only correct the Specialized Character, Discipline and State Defense Education program initiated by him. According to Dedi, KPAI is better off taking steps.

"KPAI should have its direction today, not correcting the shortcomings of activities carried out for emergency handling of a problem," said Dedi after together with the anti-corruption commission discussed efforts to reallocate the West Java Provincial Government budget, at the KPK's Red and White Building, Jakarta, Monday, May 19, which was confiscated by Antara.

Dedi made the statement in response to KPAI's finding that students who took part in the program were not determined based on a professional psychologist assessment, but only a counseling teacher (BK) recommendation, and noted 6.7 percent of students stated that they did not know the reason for participating in the program.

What KPAI has to do is take steps to solve various problems experienced by our teenage children. Is it because of problems at home, or school, which ultimately lead to criminal acts," he said.

He further said that KPAI could create a program targeting thousands of problematic students in West Java to be educated so that the problem would be resolved.

"If KPAI is busy continuing to take care of bed problems and the like, it will not be able to solve problems," he said.

In addition, he said that KPAI could see the impact on the problematic students who participated in the West Java Provincial Government program.

"KPAI can see yesterday that 39 children have finished, how is the child's condition, his discipline, then his sense of empathy, even he cried in front of his mother kissing his feet. It's not necessarily that education is obtained at school," he said.

Meanwhile, he said that on Tuesday (20/5), 273 students would graduate from the program which took place at the State Defense Education Depot of the Regional Military Command Identification III/Siliwangi, West Bandung Regency, West Java, the.

He then said that the West Java Provincial Government in the future plans to develop 15-20 thousand problematic students through the Special Character, Discipline and State Defense Education program.