The statement was delivered by Director of Family, Women, Children, Youth, and Sports at the ministry Woro Srihastuti Sulistyaningrum at a webinar, accessed from here on Monday.
To improve the quality and competitiveness of human resources, the state must ensure that children grow optimally, are protected, and have their rights fulfilled, she stressed.
The state needs to build or reinforce a responsive, friendly, and flexible system, which could be implemented on a national scale, down to the village level, to create a child-friendly Indonesia.
Among the efforts that can be done is the imposition of regulations, information dissemination, and the improvement of institutions or agencies, she said. It is also important to pay attention to coordination between sectors as well as funding, she added.
The system that will be built would also need to consider things such as ways to improve access and quality of services in all children-related aspects, so that children can participate in development in accordance with their stage of growth, she said.
She cited the child-friendly district/city program initiated by the Women's Empowerment and Child Protection Ministry as one of the government's efforts to achieve this ideal.
Currently, 275 out of 514 districts or cities have been deemed child-friendly spaces. It is expected that the program would encourage regional governments to conduct various programs aimed at the fulfillment of every child's rights.
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Sulistyaningrum also said that the government must understand that all children — whether city or village children -- have a different set of problems that must be resolved through stronger collaboration, from the large scale down to the smallest scale.
Later on, the prospective system could recognize every child's problems from various aspects, and children could be protected through better sub-systems in government or policies that would be made in the future, she elaborated.
"To be able to create a child-friendly environment, collaboration between the government and non-government is certainly an important thing in ensuring the success of child protection development," she said.
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Translator: Hreeloita D S, Mecca Yumna
Editor: Rahmad Nasution
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