The protection is being boosted through DPR's three functions of making laws, supervising government activities, and allocating budgets
“For the role of legislators regarding childcare issues, normatively, the DPR has three main functions of making laws, supervising government activities, and allocating budgets," he remarked during an online discussion followed here on Tuesday.
According to Kahfi, the dissemination of information regarding regulation on child protection must be improved, so that children sensing abandonment due to their parents’ divorce know where they can report it.
He believed that several people do not know that there are firm sanctions for child neglect. For instance, based on the Law on the Elimination of Domestic Violence Article 49, letter a, people neglecting their household can be sentenced to a maximum of three years in prison or a maximum fine of Rp15 million.
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Kahfi called on the central and regional governments to channel greater attention to children abandoned due to their parents' divorce since they are prone to face problems related to custody, violation of access to meet one of their parents, being neglected, and so on.
To this end, he also encouraged the Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) to become a facilitator who can bring together various stakeholders across ministries and agencies to concentrate more on the issue of child protection for those who become victims of parental divorce.
“We, in the House of Representatives, are ready to support,” he stressed.
He affirmed that if the KPAI has issues and data, they can convey them to the House that will then help strengthen the advocation, so that they will be more widely known and can draw the government's attention, be prioritized, and get budget allocation for handling.
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Translator: Suci Nurhaliza, Raka Adji
Editor: Rahmad Nasution
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