REALIZING CHILD’S RIGHT THROUGH CHILD FRIENDLY CITY INITIATIVE IN INDONESIA

Abstract

The realization of the Convention of the Right of Child in Indonesia is facing some chalanges after 25 yeas of its retification. It coused by weak of the policy, Institutiaonal and program supports. The child friendly city Initiative (CFC) started in 2006 in Surakarta City which defined as a comprehensive and sustainable system of a city/district development which integrates the commitments and resources of government, community and private sectors into policies, programs and activities to fulfil the rights of children. The CFC has 31 comprehensive indicators to measure the progress, where one of indicator is Child Friendly School, therefore it is a great opportunity to improve child friendly education initiative in Indonesia under this framework. As the government found that, the inititaive is in good sucess, therefore in 2014, under the amanded Child Protection Law Number 35/2014., the child protection is regulated that decentralized sub national government is responsible to implement for the realization of child’s rights. However, based on the experiencies, there are several remaining challenges that need to overcome which will be discussed in this paper.