Creative Writing: STREET CHILDREN: WHAT SHOULD BE EXCOMMUNICATED?

STREET CHILDREN: WHAT SHOULD BE EXCOMMUNICATED?

On July 23 has been designated as National Day of the child (Hari Anak Nasional / HAN), this momentum should be used as a material reflection of the bad treatment of children who have been rampant in Indonesia. Quite often the children of families unable to often "forced" to eventually become adults with the burden of economic responsibility in excess family so they did not have time to enjoy childhood a cheerful and pleasant. In different directions we find many street children. This is worrying from this state is the number of officials who assess their presence as a pariah who should be quarantined and no solution to free them from poverty and injustice.

Street children, it remains one of the classic problems of developing countries, including in our country. Their presence in the corners of the city's musty and dingy can be very closely related to the trap of poverty experienced by their parents. There are still many millions of families in this country who still live in poverty and under the standards of eligibility. They should be burdened with the same thing in the system state such as paying taxes, buying necessities whose prices soar. This is what causes parents deliberately employing children to compete in the middle of urban combat that seemed wild and cruel.

Violence for violence such as that forged chain and crush poor children until they grow into individuals who are divided. Of course, we cannot be a priori by saying, "What's wrong yourself, why are you being the poor?" If only they had the choice to be born, certainly no one man who wanted children born and raised in the midst of poverty trouncing his parents.

In a one of Medias in this country, Director General of Social Rehabilitation Services and the Ministry of Social Affairs Makmur Sanusi confirmed it on Thursday (21/1/2010) in Jakarta, related criticism of the raid street children, as reported Kompas (Thursday). Handling of street children should refer to the regulations and laws on child protection. "They do not need to be arrested, let alone rectal examination. Handling the street children be persuasive approach. The streets should not be an object, but is the subject," he said.

In short, Street children do not need to be arrested because he was not the source of the problem. The presence of street children at every intersection is a phenomenon, a vivid symptom of a city poverty conditions and poverty our nation's image. Handling of street children should be done professionally. If not, the potential lost generation. The Government not only provided assistance to street children, but also parents. His parents were given training and business capital. While his son, there are tutorials that deal with the problem of their education. In the future, in the future, street children is no longer a pariah in the community, they must be respected and nurtured so that the young generation and Indonesia may be able to perform it the name of Indonesia. (Tsm.red)