Recommendations Working children and child labour

160 East Java and Pontianak West Kalimantan Layanan฀Telepon฀Sahabat฀AnakTESA 129, 2009. Indeed, critics of this facility have pointed out that it is not connected to the institutions responsible for conducting follow-up action, thus limiting its effectiveness. 20 Allocations of funding for protection of children from violence for 2006–2009 are documented in the Government Work-Plan Rencana฀Strategis฀ Pemerintah, RKP and the annual national revenue and expenditure budget APBN. The RKP document identifies the ministries or institutions responsible for programme implementation and outlines the activities and their targets. The national budget explains the final allocation of funds for programmes. Analysis of RKP documents for the years 2006–2009 shows that there were two major institutions charged with the protection of children from acts of violence: the Ministry for Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection and the Ministry of Social Affairs. The ministry charged with implementation of the Social Welfare Rehabilitation and Services Programme was the Ministry of Social Affairs see No. 1 in Table 5.8, while the three other programmes listed in Table 5.8 were implemented by the Ministry for Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection. One of the activities of the Social Welfare Rehabilitation and Services programme was to develop and provide social and legal protection for victims of exploitation, trafficking of women and children, and violence. One of the target indicators was the financing of Technical Implementation Units Unit฀Pelaksana฀Teknis, UPT of the Ministry of Social Affairs. The RPSA social protection homes for children, discussed earlier in this section are one type of UPT related to the handling of child victims of violence. In 2006, one of the activities financed by the Child Protection and Child Welfare Improvement programme was strengthening institutions and networks in order to abolish violence against children RKP 2006. In subsequent years 2007– 2009, this programme focused on strengthening child-friendly aspects of policy and legal systems so that children would have protection from various forms of violence Rencana฀Strategis฀ Kementerian฀Pemberdayaan฀Perempuan 2007– 2009, p. 17, and on institutional strengthening for regional offices of the Indonesian Child Protection Commission at the provincial or kabupatenkota level RKP 2007, 2008 and 2009. One focus of the Strengthening of Gender and Children’s Mainstreaming Institutions programme during the years 2006–2009 was the establishment of P2TP2A Integrated Service Centres for Women’s and Children’s Empowerment at the provincial and kabupaten kota levels RKP 2006–2009. One of the activities of the Improving Women’s Protection and Quality of Life programme was financing RPK Special Services Rooms at police stations, and PPT Integrated Service Centres at hospitals or other community-based locations. 20 This critic was raised by one of the participants of an FGD conducted in 29 September 2010 Source:฀Government฀Work-Plan฀RKP,฀2006–2009 Table 5.8: Budget for protection of children from acts of violence, 2006–2009 No 1 2 3 4 Name of programmes Social Welfare Rehabilitation and Services Child Protection and Child Welfare Improvement Strengthening of Gender and Children’s Mainstreaming Institutions Improving Women’s Protection and Quality of Life 2006 593,587 5,750 89,320 14,319 2007 528,913 8,500 110,910 16,315 2008 528,098 12,440 104,041 na 2009 533,444 13,079 76,493 11,212 Allocation IDR millions 161 Moreover, the development of community- based and hospital-based PPT continued at the provincial and kabupatenkota levels in accordance with the Ministry for Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection’s Strategic Plan 2007–2009.

5.4.3 Outcomes regarding protecting children from violence

The major challenge in assessing the progress of efforts to protect children from violent acts lies in the lack of data. National statistics on this topic simply do not exist and most available data are based on case reports and small studies with limited scope. The only national database that contains relevant indicators is the SUSENAS, since the survey asks questions about child exposure to criminal acts; but this only represents a small fraction of the violent acts involving children. According to reports received in 2008 and 2009 by the National Commission for Child Protection, perpetrators of violence against children derived from all social strata, religions, ethnicities and races. Violence against children typically occurred in everyday