Friday 29 August 2014

21:40
If you look at the media lately, where the mother's heart is not cut seen cases of girls who experienced sexual violence at school. But apparently this is not the first case that occurred in Indonesia. Sexual violence against children has been going on for years, and other forms of violence experienced by children in Indonesia is very diverse and daunting.

Data were collected and analyzed data and Information Center (PUSDATIN) National Commission on Children, there were 21,689,797 cases of violation of child rights. As many as 42-58% of child rights violations is a sexual crime, the rest are cases of physical abuse, neglect and child struggles, economic exploitation, trafficking of children (child trafficking) for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. This data is sourced from public statements through direct complaint service (hotline), the mass media as well as the management of data and information collected by the Child Protection Agency (LPA) in 34 provinces and 179 districts City.

While in the year 2014 alone, the National Commission for Child complaint service has received reports 679 cases, the number of child victims of 896 people. A total of 52% were sexual crimes.

Meanwhile, law enforcement in dealing with sexual crimes against children do not show partiality children as victims. Judge's ruling in the case of sexual crimes are still not reflect the sense of justice for the victims. Many judges are free to decide the sex offenders on the grounds of insufficient evidence, while Law No. 23 of 2002 on Child Protection requires punishment for sex offenders is at least 3 years and a maximum of 15 years.

To respond to the emergency situation of Indonesia against Child Sexual Abuse, and the National Movement Against Sexual Offences against Children launched by the President, National Commission on Children on Mother Moving community support, declared INDONESIA ONE ACTION AGAINST SEXUAL CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN. This declaration was signed exactly dated May 20, 2014, in conjunction with the celebration of National Awakening Day, in the hopes Indonesia stood up against the evil sexual predators.

The contents of the declaration urges:
  1. Parliament and the government to revise article 81, 92 of Law No. 23 of 2002 on Child Protection, to change the minimum sentence of 3 years and maximum 15 years for the perpetrators of sexual crimes against children be at least 20 years, a maximum of life plus the legal weighting gelding through chemical injection for adult sex offenders.
  2. Urge the government to make strategic moves with through prevention of violations of children's rights organization and strengthening community participation to form a Quick Reaction Team (TRC) Child Protection in each village / RT and RW RT involving the Chairman, Village Head, Youth, PKK , IHC, Environmental Systems Society, Babinsa, and Community Police. 
  3. Urge central and local governments for the early detection of the violation with the institutional strengthening child protection, creation of a data collection system and child protection management system and building a child protection referral system in Indonesia.
  4. Encourage the role of government to establish and provide knowledge to the public that the home is the frontline in maintaining and protecting children. And urged the government and the society to defend and assistance for children who need special protection.
  5. Urge central and local government and the community to build houses Children's Social Protection (RSPA) to accommodate and provide services and integrated protection for children who need special protection.
  6. Urge Police to improve the status of Women and Child Protection units (PPA) are scattered and are in the Police and Criminal visible attached to, be equivalent Invisible Criminal (Criminal visible PPA). While the level of PPA unit which was originally located in the police station became attached to the Criminal visible in each police station, so that the Police in providing services to the cases of child rights violation can be a maximum, fast, and siding for victims.
(Tenni Purwanti)

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