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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 - 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,
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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/tibetan-english/news/a-28-2006-05-01-voa2-90289097.html?moddate=2006-05-01 [accessed 30 May 2011] In the 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/edition-75/free-clinic-for-street-children-2707295 [accessed 31 May 2011] 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 material used herein
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