Most of community leaders and staff of Local Government bodies admitted that they new little about PKSA and recommended that the
flow of information should be improved. Limited involvement of Local Government bodies during the implementation and lack of information
on the program leads to the feeling of being ignored and bypassed. This feeling was repeatedly expressed by officers of Dinas Sosial. To some
degree, similar complaints have also been raised by some LKSAs. Dinas Sosial and LKSAs argued that they had not been properly informed about
new social workers that had been sent to work with them. Some social workers recalled being asked ‘who are you?’ when arriving to take up
duty at the LKSA they had been sent to. The absence of effective socialization at the level of provincial and
districtscity officers undermines thesupport for PKSA and affects the performance of social workers in providing access to social services.
For instance, local offices of civil registration hesitate to launch birth certificates for the children because they have never been informed
about the existence, roles and mandates of social workers. With this limited recognition by local agencies, overcoming bureaucratic barriers
that block the access of children to social services becomes challenging and requires more time and efforts.
4.2.2 Targeting and Verification
Targeting is the method that ensures the proper selection of the beneficiaries of a program. The target groups of PKSA are neglected
under-5 children, street children and neglected children, children in conflict with the law, children with disabilities and children in need of
special protection. The clusters are further divided in sub-groups. The number of children that meet the eligibility criteria and the number of
children from the different clusters that have been approved by PKSA in 2012 and 2013 are given in Table 4. In summary PKSA reaches only 3
percent of its target group. In a situation where a program can only reach a small percentage of its
target group, the targeting procedures should ensure that the program approves those children that are most vulnerable and most in need in of
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the programs assistance. It should avoid inclusion errors in order that the limited program resources are focused on the most critical needs.
A number of documents that assess the targeting of PKSA indicate that PKSA targeting procedures do not result in selecting the children most in
need of child welfare and child protection interventions: • ‘When we examined the living conditions at home, these children
PKSA beneficiaries were generally living in decent homes made of tile roofs, brick walls and cement floors.” Badan Perencanaan
Pembagunan National, 2011 • ‘During interaction with the Panti, it was seen that there is no
requirement for the Panti to conduct any family assessment or home visits in order to enroll a child in the PKSA program. In fact,
the administration of the Panti mentioned that the Government does not ask about family background of the children when they
are proposing support for the children’….’It is also salient that almost none of the children in the Panti in Jakarta were from
Jakarta and almost none of their parents lived in Jakarta. They had been sent from far off provinces in order for them to access
good education at the homes.’ Lahiri, 2013 • ‘In most areas, however, LKSAs nominated their own clients
because of insufficient time and money for additional data collection and assessment. As a result, over 75 percent of current
PKSA beneficiaries were LKSA clients … methods of searching and identifying eligible beneficiaries need serious consideration and
improvement’World Bank, 2012b. These statements are supported by observations made during fieldwork.
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