Bobby Nasution-Aulia Rachman Commitment To Make Medan A Child-Friendly City

Deputy Mayor of Medan Aulia Rachman spoke with the PPPA Ministry virtually in Medan, Tuesday (14/6/2022). (ANTARA/HO-Diskominfo Medan City)

MEDAN - Medan City Government, North Sumatra, is committed to making many significant changes in realizing Medan City as a child-friendly city.

Deputy Mayor of Medan Aulia Rachman said one strategic step was to integrate all OPD so that children in Medan City could become pillars of a better nation.

"Starting from education, health to child protection, Mayor Bobby Nasution is of particular concern. We are also collaborating with law enforcement officials to provide protection for children in Medan City," explained Aulia as quoted by Antara, Wednesday, June 15.

This was conveyed by Aulia Rachman after participating in the hybrid field verification of the 2022 child-like city evaluation held by the Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA) from the City of Medan.

The Medan City Government hopes that with this hybrid field verification, the City of Medan can get a child-friendly city award, like the previous year the Medan City Government won the middle-age city award in 2021.

"We want significant changes under the leadership of the Mayor of Medan, Bobby Nasution, we must be able to do it. It can be done together without sectoral egos," explained Aulia Rachman.

Assistant Deputy for Policy Formulation for the Fulfillment of Children's Rights at the Ministry of PPPA, Sri Prihartini Wijayanti virtually stated that child-friendly districts/cities are fulfillment systems that guarantee the fulfillment of children.

Then special protection for children is carried out in a planned, comprehensive and sustainable manner. Through child-friendly districts/cities, all programs and activities to fulfill children's rights can be implemented.

"With the implementation of this hybrid field verification activity, it can provide great benefits to ensure that children's rights are fulfilled in the city of Medan," he said.

"It becomes a reference for building commitment for policy makers, so that programs and policies can intervene in achieving child-friendly cities in Medan City," said Sri.