WE, the weight should be called, has not really care about the kids, the generation that will determine the fate of this nation of black and white. It can be seen, at least from our appreciation to the warning HAN (National Children's Day) is still low. Many of us do not even know that July 23 is the day the child. Momentum for all elements of our nation to evaluate and reflect on the development of national children rose passed without meaning.
Since initiated by former President Suharto in 1984 and, until now, the National Children's Day July 23 is yet to receive great attention. He, for instance, still less prestige than Kartini Day April 21, even by Mother's Day December 22. Motion of gender equality and respect to women, are clearly important. However, certainly not more than the strategic thought of the fate of the children, a group believed to be the nation's assets.
We're a quarter century, every year to celebrate National Child Day. However, the fate of our children in general are still apprehensive. That, perhaps, because attention and our policies are still merely inclined to uphold the interests of adults. Meanwhile, the National Children's Day always stops limited to ceremonial events. Not to raise awareness at the level of how to empower children so they become the next generation of reliable.
Until now, millions of Indonesian children are forced to live on the streets hard and wild. They become beggars, buskers, hawkers newspapers, and bullies. Meanwhile, other kids their age are in the classroom while studying and playing happily with their friends. Due snared family poverty, many children are forced excessive economic burden by contributing to earn a living.So they do not have time to enjoy childhood a cheerful and pleasant.
The phenomenon of street children is still one of the classic problems in developing countries, including Indonesia. Poverty has forced the children present at the corners of the city slums.They, for the sake of sustaining the family economy, the material must scramble to compete in the middle of a cruel urban combat.
Violence wrought by the violence of living of poor children to make them grow as a person who split. Precocious and become a man with a low character because no adequate educational world taste. How could we rely on the future of this nation to the man with such qualities.
Therefore, we still need to pay greater attention to the fate of the children with concrete details the fundamental solution. Unlike all these years. Calling the children as a national asset just jargon. Because many policies often we pergoki precisely opposite to the interests of protecting and saving the huge investment.
BY honestly say, the task of improving the quality of Indonesian children are there on the shoulders of us all. Families, communities and countries. But of course the state has the greatest responsibility. Because, that's the reason why this country was founded, namely the intellectual life of the nation, promote the general welfare, and protect all the native land of Indonesia.
This is to be achieved by the state, through the conductors of the state, through government programs. But, in fact, there also lies the problem. Since independence in 1945, until now, intelligence, prosperity, and it has not been obtained keterlindungan evenly. There are still millions of citizens of this nation that has not tercerdaskan because of the poor and oppressed life as weak.
Protect your children by giving the course of their rights, their minimum rights to education and health. Indeed, there was quite encouraging the development of government policy in education.Now there are so-called free education for nine-year compulsory education.
However, this government program with a weight should be called, has not been running satisfactorily. There are still many poor families who can not afford access to education up to junior high school who supposedly called it for free. Because, apparently still expensive tuition fees. They still have to buy the various needs of school children, such books as only a little lesson packages are free. Not to mention to buy school uniforms.
For the haves, bought various needs of their children's school is certainly not a problem. They have prepared the budget since the distant days, for the future of his beloved children. But for poor families, expensive school fees would be a big problem. When to eat day-to-day difficulties, then send their children to be not a priority. From this perspective may explain why children drop out of school is still a common in this country that he said this jinawi Gemah Ripah loh.
The right to health is also not yet obtained our children properly. We know, every day many children from poor families should be treated because their parents are late for no cost. There should be blind, paralyzed, or dead, because families can not afford to take them to hospital treatment.
Except for education and health inequality, our children too often become victims of domestic violence. Apparently, some parents still regard children as property to be treated arbitrarily.Thus, persecuted for reasons of educating a child or to vent their annoyance, as if into something commonplace.
Violence against children also should concern us all. That no longer play jewer, cursing, hitting, which makes children physically injured and his heart. Really, there are many agendas shall be completed to get out of the boy's cross-world chaos. ***
Children in conflict with the law remains a thorny problem. (Doc: Sekar Sari / LTV)
CHILD is a future investment. Everyone would agree with this term. As an investment, he shall be treated, maintained, and developed with care. That, of course through the provision of an adequate education. The children shall be educated not only so smart, but more than that to have character. To make smart, this task becomes a large portion of the school. While that character, it becomes the responsibility of family and community.
The development of the characters become so important because precisely these factors greatly affect the future of children. Because, in fact, almost all world leaders are not smart people, but people who have that character. People usually have a charismatic character.Strong character will also make a person smarter and able to think ahead.
They are usually also capable of reading problems, then quickly find a way out. That is why, someone who has a general character can be relied upon to be good leaders. And, two important factors that affect the child's character is the family and the environment.
Therefore, children should be kept away from the family environment and social environment that allows them to grow into a bad tempered man. Family and the environment should provide a good example. Children are usually treated with a hard, usually the people with ugly personalities as adults. There is a lack of confidence and fear of making mistakes doubter. Or become rough because of the human character are trained to solve the problem with boxing as taught their parents.
When the environment is conducive, the state turns its main task. Namely, the intellectual life of the nation by providing quality education accessible to all people easy. Education funding policy provides a minimum 20 percent of the total state budget, deserves our appreciation.
On the political willingness of the organizers of the country, quality education can be expected to improve. Therefore, the broader opportunity to correct various deficiencies in the education sector through the increase in this budget. Educational facilities can be improved, teachers are also a chance to improve their knowledge because they can go to school again at the expense of the state.
Cost of education, thus, will also be cheaper because the parents no longer provide all the needs of school their children. Large budget did allow for free school materialized as the constitutional rights of all citizens.
Later, education was not only able to enjoy the rich like so far. School dropout who became a source of various social ills, such as juvenile delinquency, prostitution, and street children, so be pressed. We are excited and gave high appreciation to the government on its commitment to the education side of this.
