JAKARTA - Deputy Chairman of Commission VIII of the DPR Singgih Januratmoko said the case of a child in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) who dared to end his life by hanging himself because he could not afford to buy books and ballpoint pens for school was very worrying.
He assessed that the government must evaluate the entire child protection system up to the distribution of social assistance.
"Maybe the thing we will evaluate later, for example, the policy for social assistance is how, whether it will be later whether there needs to be a change in what form it will be given, because sometimes social assistance is sometimes wrong target. It should be given to the child, for the child or how, it turns out that it is only given to everyone. This may be from this incident, we are all, 'Oh, it turns out that there are things that were yesterday outside of what was outside of our predictions,' that's it," said Singgih at the DPR building, Senayan, Jakarta, Wednesday, February 4.
In addition, Singgih assessed that the people's school program must also be strengthened, especially in the 3T areas (behind, ahead, outermost). "We must massively expand the people's schools, especially for those in elementary and junior high schools, in areas that are indeed in the 3T yes. In the 3T and areas that are indeed outside Java, we must massively expand so that indeed families with low incomes can still have their education guaranteed,"
Singgih also asked the Ministry of Empowerment of Women and Child Protection (PPPA) to intensify socialization to every family so that they continue to pay attention to children's psychology.
"Maybe yesterday was still focused on child protection, but this is different, this is the psychological of children that we have to talk about, PPPA must immediately make programs related to not only the protection of women and children but also increase programs that can make protection against children's psychology as well," said Singgih.
"This is actually the family is less able and the mother is less attentive to the child so that he has no place to confide or to dare to talk about it, his child finally despairs and commits suicide," added the Golkar legislator from the Central Java District.
The head of the social commission stated that his party would immediately communicate with the Ministry of PPPA as well as the Ministry of Social Affairs and urged to immediately go to the lagging areas. Not only about protecting children from crime problems, but also the child's needs for their rights.
"We have to map out which children need special programs for protection, right? Yesterday, the focus was always on sexual crimes or sexual harassment, but this problem is new. This is what the ministry must immediately make programs for how this will not happen again," said Singgih.
"This is a warning for all of us. So we want to be in the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Ministry of PPPA, all of this is not just one ministry, yes, it will also complement the local government," he concluded.
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