The life of street children

Activities in indonesia street children has been increasing, starting in the square, cinema, road, street corner, train station, terminal, markets, shops, malls and even in big cities like Jakarta. Now, her children in indonesia appear in the lives of not more brisk. The condition of the children who are more terpuruk can diliihat's physical appearance only.

Anyone who is called street children?
Street child is someone who is still not mature (physically and phsykis) who spend most time on the streets by doing activities to earn money in order to maintain his life that sometimes get a physical or mental pressure from lingkunganya. They generally come from families that economic weakness. Street children grow and develop with a background of streets and familiar with poverty, persecution, and loss of affection, so that the soul and makes it burdensome behave negatively.
Cases of violence (physical, psykologis, or sexual) experienced by street children revealed to the public until just a phenomenon "iceberg" of cases of actual violence that often occur in the life of street children. Therefore, it is not too excessive when it is said that street children are always in a situation that threatens the development of physical, mental, and social and even their lives. In situations of violence faced by the ongoing journey in life, then that is the lesson inherent in the street children themselves and form their personality.
When they mature, they will likely be one of the perpetrators of violence. Without any effort, then we have a role and make the children as victims interminable. Removing the stigmatization becomes very important. Actual street children are just victims of family conflict, community streets, and victims of the economic policy permerintah not capable of managing people. Campaign for the protection of street children needs to be done continuously for at least encourage the parties outside of street children in order to stop the actions of violence against street children.

Empowerment of Children's Streets
Actual street children is not different from other children, they also have potential and talent. In the children, such as the brain that contain 100-200 billion brain cells ready to be developed and diaktualisasikan to achieve the highest level of potential. In the development of the human brain reaches 50% capacity during early childhood. We have been really mellupakan rights of children to play, school, and life is often as other children. They forced the parents to feel getirnya life. They grow and develop with a background of streets and familiar with poverty, persecution, and loss of affection, so that the soul and makes it burdensome behave negatively.
Article 9, paragraph (1) of Law no 23 of 2002 on the protection of children; "Every child is entitled to obtain the education and instruction in personal development and the level of interest in accordance with the kecerdasannya and bakatnya". Of education should consider the aspects of the development of their physical and mental. For children who are not small adults. Children have their own world and different from adults. We do not give enough to eat and drink only, or just protect it in a house, because children need love. Love is fundamen education. Without love, education may not be ideal. Education without love without a side dish such as rice, dry flat, not interesting.
Education aimed at the bottom form the child characters become a good child. Special education for street children outside the school that is in accordance with the process of learning which is done in house vessel drift.
Home as a place to stay over while the concentration of non-formal, where children meet to obtain information and guidance before the start referred to in the process of further development. Peran defined street children as a mediator with the parties who will help them. Stop by the house is a process that provides non-formal atmosphere of the center of the street children resosialisasi system of values and norms in society. Peran goal is the establishment that is re resosialisasi attitudes and behavior of children in accordance with the values and norms that apply in the community and to provide early education to the needs of children and prepare the future so that people become productive.
The role and function for the drop in house program of street children is very important. In summary the house stop by, among others: 1. Perlindunga as a place of various forms of violence that often override the street children from violence and sexual behavior of misuse or a variety of other forms of violence. 2 Rehabilitation, the embed function and restore the social child. 3 As the access to services, namely as a stopover while street children and access to various social services such as education, health, etc.. Location drop in home must be located in the middle of the community to facilitate the education process early, and the norms of resosialisasi for street children.