Permenko PMK No.1/2022 Is Expected To Be A Solution To Overcome Children's Problems

Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Muhadjir Effendy (left) when delivering a speech at the virtual launch of the Minister of Education Regulation No. 1 of 2022 followed by YouTube

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture (Menko PMK) Muhadjir Effendy said the launch of the Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture No. 1 of 2022 is the government's response to the increasingly complex problems of adolescents and schoolchildren. comprehensive support from the government and all the power of non-governmental organizations and civil society," said Muhadjir Effendy at the launch of the Coordinating Ministerial Decree, which was followed via YouTube in Jakarta, Tuesday, April 19. Muhadjir said the 2018 Basic Health Research (Riskesdas) reported that 41 percent of children and adolescents never had breakfast. In addition, 32.0 percent reported experiencing anemia and 58 percent lack of activity and healthy eating patterns. "One in ten youths aged 15 to 24 years have mental emotional disorders, the prevalence of depression reaches 6.2 percent and obesity ages 7 to 12 as much as 12 percent," he said. Meanwhile, the 2019 National Narcotics Agency (BNN) survey results, said Muhadjir, as many as 3.2 percent of students and college students in Indonesia use drugs, alcohol, psychotropic substances and other addictive substances (Drugs). I've been bullied for years," he said. The next problem is gender-based violence, in the form of cyber-based bullying, child labor and being influenced by dangerous radicals. "As many as 45 percent of children aged 14 to 22 years experienced cyber-based bullying throughout 2020. This is data from UNICEF in 2020," he said.

Regarding access and quality of education and skills, said Muhadjir, it was recorded that only 73 percent of youth aged 16 to 18 years and 26 percent of adolescents aged 19 to 24 years were still in school. "There are 72.5 percent of the population with disabilities aged 7 to 18 years. For this reason, Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Muhadjir Effendy together with PPPA Minister Bintang Puspayoga, Education and Culture Minister Nadiem Makarim, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin, BKKBN Head Hasto Wardoyo and The Ministry of Social Affairs launched the Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Regulation No. 1 of 2022 concerning the National Action Plan for Improving the Welfare of School-Age Children and Adolescents (RAN PIJAR).