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Indonesian non-profit organizations to hold national conference on child protection
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Women Empowerment and Child Protection Minister Yohana Yambise (left) recently pays a visit to suspects detained at the South Jakarta Police station over alleged exploitation of children. (Kompas.com/Kahfi Dirga Cahya)
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arious non-profit, non-governmental organizations will hold a national conference on child protection on Nov. 21 to 22 in a bid to get commitments from regulators, businesspeople and academics to find solutions for the child exploitation and abuse that is rampant across the country.
Child protection group ECPAT Indonesia organized the conference in collaboration with the Children’s Protection and Studies Center (PKPA), JARAK, Rumah Faye and Gugah Nurani Indonesia.
“We want to supervise the policies that had been made by regulators concerning children and ensure that the government allocates a sufficient budget for it,” Misran Lubis, the director of PKPA, told a press conference Sunday.
In addition to that, the conference was meant to reflect on the 25 years of progress since the ratification of the convention on the rights of the child because the serious challenges of child exploitation and abuse still persist, said Abdul Haris, the head of the Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK).
The two-day event consists of panel discussions about the children protection systems in Indonesia, a global study on the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism and best practices that could be implemented in areas beyond where they were formulated.
“This is the only conference that gives space and spotlight to children […] the panel in which children of aged 12 to 18 years old can voice their opinions is very special,” said 14-year-old Faye Simanjuntak, who is the director of a foundation specializes for helping child trafficking’s victims, Rumah Faye.
More than 200 people and 40 speakers from government institutions, non-governmental organizations and the general public, as well as researchers and academics, were expected to participate in the conference. (win/dmr)
