Kendari City Government Targets To Achieve Child-Friendly Cities In 2023

An illustration of a children's playground (ANTARA)

KENDARI - Kendari City Government (Pemkot), Sulawesi Province will make Lulo City a Child-Friendly City or KLA in 2023. A number of preparations have begun. Acting (Pj) Kendari Mayor Asmawa Tosepu in Kendari Monday, said that to realize Kendari City as a child-friendly city, it is not only done through meetings or ceremonial events. However, it must be more real by eliminating street children who work at red lights. "I ask that we must also pay attention to it "How is the condition at the red light in Kendari City, because that's exactly what we have to stop, not minimize, but be eliminated because his job is children who are the targets or targets of a child-friendly city, therefore this is a shared responsibility," said Acting Mayor Kendari Asmawa Tosepu, quoted by ANTARA, Monday, March 13, The man who served as the number one person in Kendari City asked the Office of Women's Empowerment and City Children. Kendari should be in charge of paying attention to the social conditions that occur in the field. "If this continues, I am afraid that in the next six months there will be many children roaming the red light because there are organizers," said Asmawa Tosepu. The man who also serves as Head of the General Bureau of the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) of the Republic of Indonesia (RI) said that it is not only the responsibility of the Social Service (Dinsos) and the Civil Service Police Unit (Satpol PP), but it is also the task of the Office of Women and Children Empowerment including sub-district and village heads throughout Kendari City. "Including the Kendari City Children's Forum, it must also go directly there to remind fellow children that this is a responsibility, so it is not only talking in seminars, in cold spaces like this," said Asmawa Tosepu. Asmawa Tosepu asked the lurah and sub-district heads to cooperate with Babinsa and Bhabinkamtibmas to ensure that there are no more children "Because, there is no point in Kendari City getting the title of a Child-Friendly City, but in fact, there are still many children walking everywhere", he explained.Meanwhile, the Head of the Kendari City Women's Empowerment and Child Protection Office, Siti Ganef, revealed that for the assessment of a Child-Friendly City, it is currently still in the independent assessment stage by completing the assessment indicator through a child-friendly city application. "The city's task force is child-friendly. Most of these data have not been entered until now, so a joint commitment is needed to immediately convey to the secretariat of the task force at the Kendari City Women's Empowerment and Child Protection Service," he said. In the same place, the Head of the Fulfillment of Children's Rights (PHA) Ekawati explained that the declaration activity which was coupled with the KLA Task Force Meeting in Kendari City aims to increase the commitment with the Government, Forkopimda, Community Institutions, Business World, Media together with the Children's Forum in supporting the development of Child Friendly Cities.

The results of the Mandiri Evaluation in 2022, he said, there are still some supporting data that do not yet exist, thus affecting the Achievement of Independent KLA Values. "This is what progress must be made so that the 24 KLA indicators can increase," he added. To note, entering early 2023, Kendari City has shown significant progress in developing a child-friendly city, two consecutive years, namely 2021 and 2022 Kendari City have won the title of Nindya.