DPR Wants To Be A Role Model For The MCH Bill, Urges The Secretariat General To Immediately Present Daycare Facilities

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JAKARTA - The draft law on Maternal and Child Welfare (RUU) has officially become a DPR initiative bill. The Legislation Body (Baleg) of the DPR also wants parliament to be a role model to ensure the welfare of mothers and children, including in the internal environment of the council itself.

The MCH bill itself is intended to be a guideline in realizing the welfare of mothers and children from the time the mother enters the preparation period before pregnancy, during pregnancy, during childbirth and after childbirth until the child reaches a certain age.

The goal is that children as the nation's next generation can have good growth and development so that they can become superior human resources (HR). In order for these interests to be fulfilled, the DPR encourages the fulfillment of the provision of facilities and infrastructure, both in public spaces and in the workplace.

"Starting from child care or daycare, play rooms, and lactation rooms, which must be met by managers of public facilities and at work," said Deputy Chair of the DPR Baleg, Willy Aditya, Wednesday 30 June.

Baleg encouraged the Secretariat General of the DPR to prepare these facilities at the Parliament Complex in Senayan, Jakarta. The reason, said Willy, is that the DPR must set an example of implementing policies.

"We have to initiate that the House of Representatives make child care for employees as a role model," said the legislator from the XI East Java electoral district.

Child care facilities are expected to assist working parents in caring for and caring for their children. Because to ensure that children grow into superior human resources, the state is considered to have to participate in various aspects, including in the form of policies.

“We've been struggling to make policies and build big narratives. But the DPR must also build concrete examples from the closest circle, such as creating a daycare center in the DPR Building for employees," said Willy.

"Don't see the flies across the ocean, the elephants in the eyelids escape," he continued.

Willy said the MCH Bill was an initiative to build quality human resources. Therefore, an innovative and effective approach is needed to create superior human beings.

“In the process of human resource development, we must look at the long term, it cannot only be based on a short term approach. Hands-on-vis-a-vis (confronted) with profit and loss, "said Willy.

The member of Commission XI asked all elements of the nation to look at the issue of preparing the next generation from a bigger perspective. Willy reminded that it is the next generation who will be the future of the nation's development so that its development needs must be accommodated from now on.

"This is about Indonesia's commitment to reliable and quality human development, which is a collective responsibility!" he insisted.

Furthermore, Willy hopes that the discussion of the MCH Bill will then be returned to Baleg as a complement to the council (AKD) that proposed it. For level I discussions, the DPR is waiting for a response from the Government regarding the MCH Bill through a presidential letter (Supres) and the Problem Inventory List (DIM).

"Of course we are waiting for the government to comprehensively draw up the DIM. And as the proposer, we hope that the MCH Bill will be returned to Baleg in the next discussion with the Government,” concluded Willy.