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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Sexual abuse common among street children www.thejakartapost.com/news/2007/06/12/sexual-abuse-common-among-street-children.html-0 [accessed 30 May 2011] Amran, Brebes' friend, started living on the streets after his parents divorced and his father remarried without telling him. By the age of eight, Amran had already experienced the hard life of a street child, working as a shoe polisher at the National Monument (Monas) in Central Jakarta, where he was also sexually abused. "When I was a shoe polisher one of my consumers sexually abused me and gave me Rp 3,000 (US33 cents)," said Amran, 19, who works odd jobs to make a living.He said at the time he did not understand what had happened to him. "I spent the money to play a pinball machine game," he said. "But as time passed, I learned that the person had treated me badly." He said most of his
friends living on the streets had been sexually abused by adults. "In
fact, some of them make a living out of it," he said. – SCCP Street Children Need Government Protection
Too Richel Dursin,
Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/54b/081.html [accessed 30 May 2011] Teguh became a street
singer, beggar, robber, and "joki" or a
driver’s companion on ***
ARCHIVES *** A Video Playlist
for [Playlist developed by Brian Horne of
almudo.com & streetkidnews.blogsome.com] www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=65A376A8366D3869 [accessed 30 May 2011] There are an increasing number of street
children videos now available that constitute a supplementary source of
information for researchers, especially for those who may not have
experienced the reality of street children. UNICEF
– www.unicef.org/infobycountry/indonesia.html [accessed 30 May 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/indonesia.htm [accessed 13 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children work in agriculture and in the rattan and
wood furniture, garment, footwear, food processing, toy, fishing,
construction, and small-scale mining sectors.
Other children work in the informal sector selling newspapers, shining
shoes, scavenging … Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61609.htm [accessed 13 February 2011] CHILDREN
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According to the Ministry of Social Affairs, there were 46,800 street children across 21 provinces.
Substantial numbers of street children
were apparent in Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
30 January 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/indonesia2004.html [accessed 13 February 2011] [79] The Committee
welcomes the introduction of the Social Safety Net Program for Street
Children and of the Free Street Children Program of Bandung Raya. It is
nonetheless concerned at the high number of children living on the streets
and at the violence to which they are subject, especially during sweep
operations. Facebook provides community for Sara Schonhardt,
The Christian Science Monitor, November 12, 2010 [accessed 13 November 2010] Facebook and The night can be
tough for Out & About: What does the future hold
for Mathilda Silalahi,
The [accessed 9 November 2010] Alif (not his real
name), a nine-year-old boy, ate his lontong sayur (rice cake in coconut milk soup) quickly. Alif then told me that
his mom told him to rent umbrellas to pedestrians caught in the rain. He has
five siblings. He is the oldest and has failed school several times, which
explains why he is still in the second grade at Kebon
Manggis elementary school. He studies hard and
recently got good grades. In fact English and Math have become his favorite
subjects. But he doesn’t know what he wants to be when he grows up. I can relate to why
he is undecided about his future. His mother is self-employed, doing laundry
for others and looking after his siblings. His father is a second-hand goods
vendor under a pedestrian bridge in Kampung Melayu. For Alif, becoming a
doctor is out of reach. Then I looked at
the next child, who ate his meal quickly, sometimes mumbling profanities. He
has so little education and bearing. Harsh city life has taken its toll. I concluded that
there were two kinds of street children: children on the street and children
of the street. Children on the street still have a family, a home and minimal
education but they don’t spend most of their times on the street. Children of
the street, however, are children who left their families behind and live on
the street. Baekuni killed seven boys
or more in Jakarta feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?rid=31601349&cat=f9295dc05093c851 [accessed 19 September 2011] Baekuni, also called Babe
and now 48 years old was arrested last week in Four of them where
found already. Baekuni admitted that he sodomized
all his victims, sometimes even after he strangled them to death. One of the
kids from his gang was found headless last week at a flood canal construction
project in Street kids are a
normal picture in the streets of all the big cities in Educating children in Timika
no easy task Markus Makur, The
www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/05/13/educating-children-timika-no-easy-task.html [accessed 30 May 2011] School-aged
children in Timika, Papua, apparently prefer
scavenging for recyclable items, such as used soft drink cans, to attending
school, as they can sell the items and earn money to supplement their
families' income. Their presence is
easily noticeable along the roads in Timika city.
They carry sacks on their backs, filling them with scrap items found in the
city's garbage dumps, drains and canals.
Most of them are elementary school dropouts, something which can be
attributed to the low level of awareness among parents of the importance of
education. Amereyauw expressed grave
concerns over the inferior standard of education in Mimika
for native Papuan children as most of them have dropped out of school and
live on the streets. He said that most of the school-aged children do not
attend school, likely due to their parents' ignorance on the importance of
formal education. As reported
earlier, the Mimika regency administration
announced that it would provide free education from elementary to senior high
school levels this year in a effort to motivate
parents of native Papuans as well as migrants to send their children to
school, without bearing the burden of school fees. Message Bans Giving Money to Street
Children Muh Syaifullah,
Tempo Interactive, www.tempointeractive.com/hg/nasional/2009/04/28/brk,20090428-173143,uk.html [accessed 30 May 2011] The However, Sudarmaji, a street children activist at Klitren Lor, disagreed. “The
message would not do much good because what they need are job opportunities
and training,” he said. Angkot: A cheap tour of
the city's untold stories and unsung heroes Widhyawati Ambara,
[accessed 30 May 2011] Two little boys,
walking and holding hands, travel from the pavement to the middle of the
road. The younger child seems barely able to walk steadily as he is likely
only 2 years old. As the little street singers weave their way through the
moving crowd of vehicles, we inside the angkot hold
our breath, hoping they will safely reach our angkot,
where they will play a brief song for a small amount of money. Once inside, the
older child starts to shake his musical instrument, a mineral water bottle
filled with small pebbles or beans, muttering a song with a melody that
barely resembles the original song. The younger gives each passenger an empty
envelope with a note: "Please spare your money to buy us food and pay
for our school fees." Out of pity, some of us donate Rp
500 or Rp 1000. Once their performance ends, they
jump out of the angkot, again braving the herd of
vehicles. We hold our breath, cursing their parents, if they have them, for
allowing such young boys to wander alone on the streets and beg for money. Ninety Percent of Homeless Children Go Back
on the Streets Ukky Primartantyo,
Tempo Interactive, www.tempointeractive.com/hg/nasional/2009/03/14/brk,20090314-164674,uk.html [accessed 30 May 2011] Bina Foundation coordinator, Bakat Muladiyanto,
said only around 10 to 15 percent of homeless children do not return
to the streets after they receive assistance. He said it was
difficult for these children to stay away from the streets because of their
network with other street children. Andy Hajramurni,
The www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/07/04/makassar-bans-people-giving-money-beggars.html [accessed 30 May 2011] Makassar mayoralty
in "They enjoy
being street children because they can get money easily by asking passers by," Makassar Mayor Ilham
Arif Siradjuddin said
Wednesday. He said street children
faced high risks, and that they were commonly exploited by adults, including
in some instances their parents, into earning money. "Seeing that the number of beggars had
increased over the years and taking into account the high risks they face,
the mayoralty decided to establish the local ordinance," said Ilham. Under the
Makassar local ordinance, people who give money to beggars face a maximum
fine of Rp 1.5 million (US$166.60) or a maximum of
three months imprisonment. Fined street children arrested The www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/06/18/fined-street-children-arrested.html [accessed 30 May 2011] Sixteen street
children and teenagers were sent to a local social institution in Under a bridge downtown, we learned our
math Tifa Asrianti,
The www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/05/05/under-a-bridge-downtown-we-learned-our-math.html [accessed 30 May 2011] RAY OF LIGHT: Volunteers of Sahabat Anak hold a study session for street children under Grogol overpass in Free school offers hope for Lenita Sulthani,
Reuters, www.reuters.com/article/2008/03/19/us-indonesia-school-children-idUSJAK11003020080319 [accessed 30 May 2011] Children working as
beggars, food hawkers and garbage collectors are a common sight on the
streets of Jakarta, many earning as little as $1 a day. The children have often been sent out onto
the streets by impoverished parents who can't support their families, and as
a result, are deprived of an education.
At the makeshift school equipped with wooden tables, dozens of child
workers sit on the floor, receiving lessons for two hours in the morning and
another two hours in the afternoon. It
is often tough to get the children to attend classes since many have to work
to help their parents, who are mostly garbage collectors. Anto Baret: Finding strength in numbers Wahyoe Boediwardhana,
The This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 30 May 2011] "The street is
not their home, the street is not their refuge, the
street is their life. They only need a space to survive," said the
musician, who is nicknamed Anto Baret
because he likes wearing berets. Anto is the founder of the Street Musicians Group (KPJ)
in Bulungan, South Jakarta. It all began in 1980 … The www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/01/25/media-asked-not-overexpose-mutilation-crimes.html?1 [accessed 30 May 2011] Two mutilation
crimes occurred in the Greater Jakarta area last week. Last Thursday, parts
of a young woman's body were found in a hotel room in North Jakarta, while
three days earlier the mutilated body of a boy was found in a box in Bekasi, West Java.
The mass media reported extensively on five mutilation cases in the
Greater Jakarta area last year, while two mutilation cases were covered in
both 2005 and 2006. Three of the nine
cases remain unsolved, with police yet to identify two of the victims. "The victims
are often street children, who usually live in groups. The killers mutilate
the children so other group members won't know about it," he said. Festival brings children off the streets The This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 30 May 2011] "In the long
term, we aim to get the children off the streets by keeping them busy at the
shelters," he said, adding the festival was also held to develop street
children’s abilities and knowledge in art and technology. Children performed 15 plays, acting out
folk stories from across Indonesia as part of the festival’s focus on
cultural education. Iskandar and many other
street children also had the chance to take free computer and Internet
courses during the festival. "I
want to master the technology even though I realize I’m not as lucky as other
children," Iskandar said. Another street child, Tri Hariyanti from Rumah Singgah Madani, shared her
story on learning how to produce aluminum kitchenware. "It was hard in the beginning, but I
enjoy it," she said, adding that she felt lucky to be able to develop
new skills. Street kids’ lives rewritten in recycled
paper Agnes Winarti,
The This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 30 May 2011] The gallery is home
to 13 former street children rescued by social worker Dindin
Komarudin, the workshop manager since 2002. "They actually earn less here than the
did in the streets, yet they stay here," said Dindin,
36, adding that a child can make Rp 30,000 to Rp 50,000 a day in the streets, while he can only get Rp 15,000 to Rp 17,500 as a
beginner in the workshop. "Money
can be plentiful out there, but in this workshop they get the feeling of
security, respect and appreciation for their work," said Dindin. In the
streets, they can only run from one police raid to the next, and they face
exploitation and violence from street thugs, Dindin
said. Indonesians in Focus: Dindin
Komarudin Agnes Winarti, www.planetmole.org/indonesian-news/indonesians-in-focus-dindin-komarudin.html [accessed 30 May 2011] The problems that street children face are rooted in
poverty and social exclusion, and are not amenable to quick-fix solutions.
People might assume that street children are not suited to working in the
business sector, yet one man holds the belief that going into business will
bring street children long-term benefits.
For the past five years, social worker Dindin Komarudin has been a
four-in-one-figure: a parent, brother, buddy and business partner for street
children. Over 1 million drop out of Apriadi Gunawan,
Click [here]
to access the article. Its URL is not
displayed because of its length [accessed 24 September 2011] "Most of these
students do not want to quit school but poverty and their parents'
encouragement made them have to stop their education," Ahmad told The
Jakarta Post. He said in more urban
areas like Medan and its outskirts, many school dropouts end up homeless and
living and working on the street.
"Currently, there are 4,525 street children across North Sumatra.
Of that figure, some 2,000 of them are in Medan and its outskirts and many
are school dropout." Riska, 11, lives and
works near the Pinang Baris bus terminal in
Medan. She says she has been living on
the streets for two years, earning money by washing the windows of cars
stopped at traffic lights. Riska said she dropped out of school in the fourth grade
because her parents could not afford to pay the fees. "Honestly, I didn't want to become a
street person. I wanted to stay in school. But my parents are poor so here I
am." She said her father was a
construction laborer and her mother earned money by taking in laundry. Increased poverty a real threat with new
bylaw The povertynewsblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/increased-poverty-real-threat-with-new.html [accessed 30 May 2011] The new ordinance,
which would replace the 1988 ordinance on public order, bans anyone from
opening businesses on streets, sidewalks, pedestrian bridges and other
communal areas. It would also prohibit
people from donating money to beggars, buskers and street children.
Academics, observers and legal experts have condemned the ordinance,
saying it was "ridiculous" and "inhumane" because it
discriminates some minority groups. 'Ojek' ride can
be bit scary but is cheaper and faster Sobrina Rosli,
The www.bt.com.bn/news/2007/08/19/ojek_ride_can_be_bit_scary_but_is_cheaper_and_faster [accessed 30 May 2011] On the motorbike
with a helmet provided by the driver on the way to my destination we were
stopped at a red light at a junction. As we were positioned at the front of
the line, looking around me I observed a group of children each of them
approaching cars and motorbikes asking for money. The eldest girl was no more
than 12 years old whilst the younger boys were between six and seven years of
age. A little tanned skin boy, with a chubby round face, no more than six
years old came and tugged at my pants. Looking at me with teary eyes, scruffy
face and worn out clothing I gave him some money. This was followed by the
other children approaching the bike I was on. Street children in need of the most help
with HIV/AIDS Desy Nurhayati,
The This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 30 May 2011] National Commission
for the Protection of Children secretary-general Ariest
Merdeka Sirait said
street children are very susceptible to HIV/AIDS because many of them are
involved in promiscuous sexual behavior and are injecting drug users. “The spread of HIV/AIDS among street
children should be tackled immediately, otherwise it will lead to a worse
situation,” he told The Jakarta Post. “The problem is that most of them lack
knowledge about reproductive health and about how to protect themselves from
the infection.” He said street
children have been excluded from the government-sponsored program to fight
HIV/AIDS cases among high-risk communities, such as sex workers and drug
users. Apriadi Gunawan,
The www.thejakartapost.com/news/2007/07/28/indonesia-gets-failing-grade-juvenile-justice-system.html [accessed 30 May 2011] One of the most
well-known recent examples of this was the case of Muhammad "Raju" Azwar, who was tried
for assault stemming from a fight with a schoolmate in Langkat
regency, A UNICEF survey in
2005 found that 3,110 underage children had stood trial and were being
detained in adult prisons. Most of
these children, according to Santi, were the
victims of abuse in prison. Street kids take two days off for fun and
learning The This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 30 May 2011] For most students,
July means a two-week holiday. But for street children it means two days off
from miserable life on Jakarta's streets and a chance to learn tricks that
can keep them alive. A two-day "Lindungi Aku" (Save Me)
jamboree in Taman Buah Mekar
Sari, Bogor, allowed around 600 street children from 16 of the city's
marginalized areas to have some fun and participate in educational activities
at the same time. Jamboree
participants joined a discussion about drugs, sex and sexual abuse. Speakers
from the Love the Children of the Nation Foundation (YCAB) provided the kids
with information about the dangers of drugs and also explained to them their
rights. There are 10
integral stipulations in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, also
known as the Geneva Declaration, on the universal rights of children:
equality, food, normal development, education, protection from exploitation,
a name, relief in times of distress, recreation, health and a nationality. Warief Djajanto
Basorie, The www.thejakartapost.com/news/2007/07/09/depok-street-kids-learn-free.html [accessed 30 May 2011] "I opened a warung (roadside eatery) at the terminal. Street kids
gathered. I learned that most of them had stopped out of school, so I opened
a learning center in 2000," said Rohim, an
education graduate of a three-year vocational college. The center is financed by government block
grants and donations amounting to Rp 3-4 million a
month. One grant comes every six months, another is released annually. Rohim's small businesses
like the warung, a print shop and a recycling plant
also help cover costs, the entrepreneurial, one-time student organizer added.
The recycling unit employs local scavengers who are also enrolled the
center's literacy class. Drug Trade An Easy Trap For Street Children Anissa S. Febrina, The www.thejakartapost.com/news/2007/06/13/drug-trade-easy-trap-street-children.html-0 [accessed 30 May 2011] DRUG TRADE AN EASY Sexual abuse common among street children www.thejakartapost.com/news/2007/06/12/sexual-abuse-common-among-street-children.html-0 [accessed 30 May 2011] Amran, Brebes' friend, started living on the streets after his
parents divorced and his father remarried without telling him. By the age of
eight, Amran had already experienced the hard life
of a street child, working as a shoe polisher at the National Monument (Monas)
in Central Jakarta, where he was also sexually abused. "When I was a
shoe polisher one of my consumers sexually abused me and gave me Rp 3,000 (US33 cents)," said Amran,
19, who works odd jobs to make a living.He said at
the time he did not understand what had happened to him. "I spent the
money to play a pinball machine game," he said. "But as time
passed, I learned that the person had treated me badly." He said most of his
friends living on the streets had been sexually abused by adults. "In
fact, some of them make a living out of it," he said. – SCCP Seen but not heard, life is tough for
forgotten kids Prodita Sabarini,
The genenetto.blogspot.com/2007/06/seen-but-not-heard-life-is-tough-for.html [accessed 30 May 2011] Pass a red light in
the morning, the children are there; in the day time, the weather-beaten
children are there; in the afternoon, as well as the evening, midnight, and
even dawn, the children are still there. From toddlers with their mothers
sitting on the roadside, up to scruffy pubescent teens, the children are a
fixture of traffic lights, public buses and parks. Data from the
Social Affairs Ministry showed the city had some 30,000 street children on
2005. While there has not been another survey since then, volunteer worker Heru Suprapto from the Jakarta
Center for Street Children said the numbers have not gone down. Easing the Burden on City’s Poor: Makassar,
South Sulawesi www.planetmole.org/indonesian-news/easing-the-burden-on-citys-poor-makassar-south-sulawesi.html [accessed 30 May 2011] Through its social
office, the city will also conduct 'raids' on street children and the
homeless. All residents, including children
found on the street during these raids, will attend guidance counseling and
training programs before being employed in the industrial sector. Ilham said the
municipality was working with the Muslim Charitable Donations Board in
Makassar to provide training programs for street children. Already 25 street
children who have been trained for three months in welding, motor repair and
electricity, are now working for a number of companies, Ilham
said. "We are now working
together with a number of relevant agencies (so we can) take over the
training center to train street children to become workers. "A number of companies have stated
their commitment to recruit the street children at least two workers per company,"
he said. Provide scholarships for them The This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 30 May 2011] Poverty is the main
reason why children drop out of school to become beggars or hawkers to help
their parents. Although the Constitution assures them the right to a better
living, the number of neglected children continues to increase. The
Jakarta Post asked some residents for their opinions on the issue … 'Govt can’t help
street children' The This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 30 May 2011] While children are
guaranteed state protection under the law and in the Constitution, reality is
often much different. In Jakarta, neglected and abused children can be found
at virtually every major intersection. Aust man jailed in Agence France-Presse AFP, Reuters, Feb 26, 2007 www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/02/26/1857727.htm [accessed 30 May 2011] An
Indonesian court has jailed an Australian man for 10 years for sexually
abusing street children. The
48-year-old language teacher was arrested in Jakarta in August after seven
children complained he had sexually abused them. Amount of Street Children Rises Pramono, Tempo Interactive,
www.tempointeractive.com/hg/nasional/2007/02/05/brk,20070205-92533,uk.html [accessed 30 May 2011] The amount of
street children in Soccer Scores with Awareness and Help for
Vulnerable Street Children www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/284081/116491759940.htm [Last access date unavailable] While the rest of
the world observes World AIDS Day on December 1, one of Child trafficking on rise in Indonesia Australian Associated Press AAP, Dec 4 2006 news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=168485 [accessed 13 February 2011] "We only have
to walk through Kuta or any other tourist area at
night to see for ourselves the many young girls working in the street, or in
many of the clubs, karaoke bars or even hotels operating in the area," she
said. "Adolescent children who
drop out of school are the most vulnerable.
"They are trapped by poor education, with little or no work
opportunities. As such they are easy prey for traffickers." Ministry of Women
Empowerment child protection assistant deputy Soepalarto
Soedibjo said there had been a "significant
increase" of sexual exploitation of children, with no significant
improvement despite recent efforts to fight the problem. Andi Hajramurni,
The www.thejakartapost.com/news/2006/11/10/makassar-police-arrest-two-running-begging-ring.html [accessed 30 May 2011] Ibrahim said that
according to Sampara, the beggars and street
children were transported to Sampara told officials
each child was required to collect at least Rp
10,000 (US$1.05) a day, with some children being obliged to collect at least Rp 50,000 a day.
"If the children failed to meet the target, Sampara
beat them up," Ibrahim said. Govt to send street
kids to school The This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] accessed 30 May 2011] The government is
initiating a program to send some 800,000 street children to school. Their
parents, if they also live on the street, will be trained for work abroad or
in other areas of the country. Australian on sex charges in Jakarta Australian Associated Press AAP, Aug 8 2006 news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=120684 [accessed 30 May 2011] The 48-year-old
man, named by police only as Peter, was arrested in his rented house in Foreign Minister
Alexander Downer said on Tuesday the Jakarta-based English teacher allegedly
had molested more than 50 Indonesian street children since moving to the
country in 2000. A solution for street children Odo Fadloeli,
This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 30 May 2011] Learning that the
authorities believe putting street children into shelters is the answer, the
children themselves have other thoughts. Most of them prefer to go back to
the streets, where they can make some money for their families, rather than
living a ‘normal life’. The Status and Trends of HIV/AIDS/STI
epidemics in Asia and the Pacific [PDF] Monitoring the AIDS Pandemic (MAP) Network,
pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNACM798.pdf [accessed 19 September 2011] FIGURE 15 - Since the
economic crisis developed in Indonesia in 1998, the number of children living
on the streets of large cities has increased. Many of these children
have sex, and for some of them sex is their source of income. Recent studies
among street children in Jakarta and Central Java found that between a
quarter and a third of the children were sexually active and only six percent
had ever used a condom. Not surprisingly, many were infected with STIs: in To give or not to give: The city’s moral
dilemma Ika Krismantari,
The This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 30 May 2011] ‘Giving street children money is not a good
solution. Streets have never been a good place for children. When we give
them money, we nurture them to stay on the street,’ Fabio Valentino, a
program manager of the Stop Giving Money To Children social organization,
told The Jakarta Post. Fabio, also an
activist with nonprofit group Sahabat Anak, said the streets have a serious impact on
children’s psychological development.
‘Living on the street means that the children have a greater
likelihood of being exposed to violence, physical abuse and exploitation,’
Fabio said. Wahyoe Boediwardhana,
The This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 30 May 2011] They do not differ
much from the other students in terms of their ability to absorb lessons.
They even scored on a par with regular students in the practice exam given
earlier. "They have a
very low threshold for boredom, however. They are easily bored if they are in
class for too long. They are not timid in expressing things, perhaps due to
their exposure to the streets, so they can give an impression of being
rough," said Eko, who is one of three teachers
assigned by the school to teach street children. Street children at high risk of HIV The www.ahrn.net/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=2484&Itemid=2#2 [accessed 30 May 2011] A 15-year-old girl,
one of the hundreds of street children hanging around the Blok M business
district in "Some of us
have had oral sex and some of us have had sex with different people without
using protection," the girl, who works as a street musician, said. Information About Street Children - This report is taken from “A Civil Society
Forum for East and South East Asia on Promoting and Protecting the Rights of
Street Children”, 12-14 March 2003 – Bangkok Thailand At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 30 May 2011] What kind of
problems do you experience on the streets?:
I’ve been raped, and I have to clean the train if I want to sell food
on the train (16-year-old boy); My
friend got all busted up with a bamboo stick, and now the other kids make fun
of him because he’s crippled (17-year-old boy); I’m always forced to hand over money, and
my friends want to kiss me (16-year-old girl); I been raped and I’ve been bashed up
(17-year-old boy) Street Children Get Another Chance in Kirsten Hongisto,
Christian Children's Fund, May 8, 2006 At one time this article had been archived and
may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 30 May 2011] Before the shelter
opened, most of the children slept at the terminal overnight. Sometimes the
police and others would beat them or destroy their instruments. For
girls, the risks included prostitution. Even though most of the youth are
from the Boyolali area, they opted to stay in the
terminal because it’s close to where they earn their money. And for some of
them, it was safer in the bus terminal than it was at home. Security Tight as Tens of Thousands Protest
Across Nancy-Amelia Collins, Voice of www.voanews.com/content/a-13-2006-05-01-voa13/400353.html [accessed 12 October 2012] In the Jakarta
demonstrations, 12-year-old Yusuf heads a delegation of around 10 street
children, many who eke out an existence on the streets of the capital by
singing or selling snacks. He says the
children want their voices to be heard because they are here to support the
rights of street children and the rights of poor children everywhere. Street Children Need Government Protection
Too Richel Dursin,
Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/54b/081.html [accessed 30 May 2011] Teguh became a street
singer, beggar, robber, and "joki" or a
driver’s companion on Social Hierarchy and the Production of
Street Children in Yayasan Lembaga
Pengkajian Sosial Humana
(YLPS Humana) At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 24 September 2011] If identity and
inclusion in state go hand in hand both are determined by the fulfillment of
specified state regulations, then non-fulfillment result in non-identity and
exclusion. Street children in Rise
In Teen Prostitution Marianne Kearney, The Straits Times, 14 nov 2000 www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/54b/079.html [accessed 30 May 2011] From
School to the Streets Marianne Kearney, Inter Press Service News
Agency IPS, www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/54b/077.html [accessed 30 May 2011] Although the only official study to date says that in 12 of Indonesia's major cities, there are around 40 000 child street workers, the number of working children is probably closer to 5.5 million -- the same number that have left school. The United Nations Children's Fund says almost 40 percent of young children (under 2 years old) are suffering from malnutrition The Construction
and Protection of Individual and Collective Identities by Street Children Harriot Beazley, Children,
Youth and Environments 13(1), Spring 2003 [accessed 31 May 2011] Hope for Street Girls Omana Nair, External
Relations Officer, Asian Development Bank ADB At one time this article had been archived and
may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 31 May 2011] A SCHEME IS PROVIDING ACCOMMODATION FOR PREGNANT
GIRLS AND YOUNG MOTHERS - In
the wake of the financial crisis, street children have become a common sight at most major intersections in Preventing HIV/AIDS
by Promoting Life for Bill Black and Arin
P. Farrington, Family Health International FHI, Building on Success: The Next Generation of HIV/AIDS Programs,
Volume IV, Number 1, June 1997 www.fhi.org/en/HIVAIDS/pub/Archive/articles/AIDScaptions/volume4no1/IndonesianStChildren.htm [accessed 31 May 2011] Iwan beat up another student at school. Fearing his father's reaction, he
fled his parents' home in the Indonesian city of Free clinic for street children - Street
children learn to value their health in Yogyakarta Wied Trisnadi
and Paramitha Hapsari, Inside www.insideindonesia.org/feature-editions/free-clinic-for-street-children [accessed 12 October 2012] Street children
have no access to the public health institutions. Nor do they have reliable
sources of information about health.
Public health centers and the polyclinics of public hospitals
regularly refuse treatment to street children because they do not have
identity cards. Indeed, street children without an identity card cannot
access any public service of any kind, including enrolment in school. Information and Computer Technology for
Indonesian Children - INTERAKSI Grant period: May 2000 - June 2003 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 31 May 2011] The goals of
INTERAKSI I were: (1) to help two Indonesian NGOs working with street
children to become more sustainable through capacity building and the
development of technology skills they could sell and (2) to teach computer
literacy to street children as a means of developing potential
income-generating skills. Asian Development Bank ADB, At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 31 May 2011] Asian Development
Bank grants for poverty reduction projects will help victims of sexual abuse
and child prostitution in Griya Asih - A Sanctuary For Street Kids Des Price, The At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 31 May 2011] It all started when
the then 59-year-old woman opened her modest home to around 40 street
children looking for shelter from the deluge. They came in droves when word
got around about a kind lady who accommodated street kids, fed and clothed
them. Literacy
Breakthroughs December 1999 www.accu.or.jp/litdbase/break/2_02.htm [accessed 31 May 2011] SUMMARY - The report aims
at sharing an innovative experience of developing media with and for the
street children in Media Development
with Street Children/LRCCE [PDF] 27 December 1999 www.accu.or.jp/litdbase/break/pdf/IDNf902B.pdf [accessed 31 May 2011] COMMUNICATING WITH STREET
CHILDREN -
Why won’t we throw away all these statistics and judgements
about street children? If we want to work with them we have to think like
them: communicate with their language. Communication. For
street children’s assistants, this means squatting, making some conversation
and sharing a cigarette (if you have one…). It includes joining in various
verbal abuse and street children slang and jokes….. Who are street
children’s assistants? The street children’s assistants are a ‘spear point’
of institutions who work on street children’s programmes.
They become ‘friends’ of the street children and show how to build a group. In fact, street
children are a group, but they consist of independent and individual people….
Street children can steal from their friend’s pocket while they are
sleeping….. The street children
never run looking for a shelter when it is raining. That means the assistants
must do the same, staying out in the rain and getting wet. When the children
meet at night, the assistants must accompany them in playing guitars through
the night. No wonder, according to the research, many street children
assistants get sick, whereas the street children, they already have
endurance. MicroAid Press Release,
September 2004 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 31 May 2011] Gareth and Sarah
Williams from Berkhamsted have raised over £12,000
to support the “Griya Asih”
sanctuary for street children foundation’s project in All
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