Foundation's Profile
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KKSP as Education and Information Center for Child Right is a Non Governmental Organization established in 1987. It concerns on children in distress. The main objective of KKSP is make the children healthy, skillful, creative and independence to prepare them to maturity and encourage the increasing of society participation in providing protection, education and medical attention for children.
KKSP Foundation in the implementation of its objective has target group, in this term society and children, particularly children who need special protection:
1. Economically exploited children such as street children, child labour on jermal, fisher children, peasant children and domestic worker children.
2. Sexually exploited children such as prostituted children, children who are traded for sexual purposes
3. Children in the emergency such as Internally Displace Children.
The programs available in KKSP Foundation are reflected from the divisions namely :
Division of Education
Division of Education develops an educational model called alternative education. This educational model is developed to counter the present educational model, however, it is considered of beyond the actual needs of the children.
The alternative education developed by KKSP Foundation since 1988 previously developed a non-formal education for kindergarten. Currently, the alternative education is considered as an integrative educational model to:
1. Broaden the knowledge of children
2. Improving the character of the children
3. Improve the skill of the children.
This Alternative Education is carried out through two integrated approaches:
1. Alternative Education in Taman Kebajikan (Free School)
It is an alternative education model of schooling for the poor children (slum area, drop out, child labor and street children).
The main objectives are:
1. To develop character, knowledge and skill of the children
2. To design a model of alternative education
3. To introduce children perspective on the social sciences
For a school year, this program is participated by 30 children who stay and live in school area.
Activities are:
1. Providing the educational facilities such as building, dormitory, learning media and the venue of apprentice for students.
2. Identify and select the students.
3. Providing skill education such as sewing, carpentry, and agriculture (Based on children's need).
4. Giving the broader vision and knowledge in Human Rights, Child Rights, Philosophy, Religion and democracy.
5. Giving the lesson of martial art, dancing, and theater training in the center of alternative education.
6. Monitoring the learning process of students in apprenticeship
7. Reporting the students' learning process and progress result.
8. Conducting evaluation on the learning process and the progress result.
9. Revise the education model and curriculum.
2. Alternative Education for Street Children
Started in 1990, KKSP runs Alternative Education for Street Children, by using the street and center based approaches. This program organizes and facilitates approximately 350 street children in four-locations e.g. Integrated Bus Station of Amplas, and Pinang Baris Bus station, Central Market of Sambu, Petisah market, Aksara Plaza and downtown locations. Most of the children come from outside of Medan. They work and live without any family's attention. Beside the lack of education, attention and love, they face so many violence's, either physically and non physically.
Alternative Education given to street children is an out of school education, where children could access many educational media available in Taman Kebajikan instead of learning in the class as in schooling system. Taman Kebajikan tries to introduce the principle of learning that does not recognize the space limit in its approach. The providing of learning facilities at Open house, Musical House, gallery and street based are carried out to achieve the actual objective of Alternative Education. The objective of out of school education is to develop character, broaden knowledge and skill, but still taking into account the principle of pluralism, participation and everybody is a teacher.
The approach of out of school education is implemented in the educational activities namely are:
1. Literacy
2. Social and Moral Value
3. Human Rights
4. Child Rights
5. Principles of Child participation and democracy
6. Labour Rights
7. Leadership
8. Association
9. Handicraft
Besides that, the art and sport are placed as educational media for children both media of liberation and organizing among children community as well. Hence, the foundation is working on organizing on street children in North Sumatra and forming the North Sumatra children's organization compose of street children, rural children, child labour and children from another sectors. Creative media to be developed are:
1. Art Club:
• Music Club
• Theatre Club
• Painting
• Poetry
2. Sports
Education on street children also included journalistic education for children through "Tualang" media. "Tualang" is a children's magazine, which is managed by children started from news hunting, printing to distribution.
Division of Research and Information
Division of Research and Information develops an information program to distribute information about condition of the children who need special protection in Indonesia particularly in North Sumatra. Furthermore, the information program also tries to develop education for society regarding problem on child rights via E-mail, press release etc.
Collecting data program, data cases and research are performed through database that is analyzed and distributed to various media regularly. Hence, Division of Research and Information has distributed the information about child's problem to various media via post, News E-mail KKSP News and Website as well. Besides that, in research, KKSP Foundation also conducts various research namely are research on child labour on jermal and their families, research on prostituted children and research on health and food condition of society after the monetary crisis. The Foundation also conducts researches on Human Rights particularly child rights. The outputs are the writings/articles about human right and child rights. Hence, the Foundation will publish two books. One is about child labour on jermal and the course of KKSP Foundation in advocating child labour on jermal since 1993.
Division of Advocacy
Division of Advocacy is to provide protection for children who need special protection. KKSP Foundation tries to develop non-litigation advocacy. Thus, the division of Information and advocacy is an integrated part since the final output of the information is advocacy. The non-litigation advocacy is implemented through:
1. Monitoring the violation and abuse cases on street children.
2. Monitoring the progress condition of child labour on jermal
3. Investigation and monitoring on the condition of prostituted children
4. Investigation and monitoring on Internally Displace Children
5. Campaign on problem of children who need special protection through media of electronic such as radio, inter-net and television and printed media such as newsletter, Newspaper and magazine either national or international.
6. Seminar/Workshop
7. Empowering the community base
8. Make pressure for the child-oriented policies changing on the House of Representative and Parliament.
9. Working with the street children whom have conflict with the law.
Nevertheless, KKSP does not "close its eyes" to perform efforts on legislation advocacy on problems that considered unfair to children. KKSP pressed charges in collaboration with legal aid institutions. The press charges, which had been conducted, are namely:
1. Press charge on the police for the case of death street children
2. Sue the entrepreneur of plaza in Medan city, for torturing on street children
3. Sue the entrepreneur of jermal for labouring children
4. Recommending the allocation budget for child protection to the North Sumatra House of Representative.
5. Proposing draft of Anti violence on Children Law with another NGOs.
Division of Health
This division is to improve the health quality of society and children particularly children who need special protection. Programs and activities of this division are namely:
1. Medical services for poor society and children through the clinic of Taman Sehat of KKSP Foundation
2. Regular medical check up and providing nutritious food on street children.
3. The promotion self-effort of health through open discussions with the children.
Division of Economic Protection
This division is to provide economic education and small business for children therefore the children will have skill and knowledge to have independent live in the future. The models of economic protection are:
1. Education about Skill
2. Education about management of small business
KKSP as Education and Information Center for Child Right is a Non Governmental Organization established in 1987. It concerns on children in distress. The main objective of KKSP is make the children healthy, skillful, creative and independence to prepare them to maturity and encourage the increasing of society participation in providing protection, education and medical attention for children.
KKSP Foundation in the implementation of its objective has target group, in this term society and children, particularly children who need special protection:
1. Economically exploited children such as street children, child labour on jermal, fisher children, peasant children and domestic worker children.
2. Sexually exploited children such as prostituted children, children who are traded for sexual purposes
3. Children in the emergency such as Internally Displace Children.
The programs available in KKSP Foundation are reflected from the divisions namely :
Division of Education
Division of Education develops an educational model called alternative education. This educational model is developed to counter the present educational model, however, it is considered of beyond the actual needs of the children.
The alternative education developed by KKSP Foundation since 1988 previously developed a non-formal education for kindergarten. Currently, the alternative education is considered as an integrative educational model to:
1. Broaden the knowledge of children
2. Improving the character of the children
3. Improve the skill of the children.
This Alternative Education is carried out through two integrated approaches:
1. Alternative Education in Taman Kebajikan (Free School)
It is an alternative education model of schooling for the poor children (slum area, drop out, child labor and street children).
The main objectives are:
1. To develop character, knowledge and skill of the children
2. To design a model of alternative education
3. To introduce children perspective on the social sciences
For a school year, this program is participated by 30 children who stay and live in school area.
Activities are:
1. Providing the educational facilities such as building, dormitory, learning media and the venue of apprentice for students.
2. Identify and select the students.
3. Providing skill education such as sewing, carpentry, and agriculture (Based on children's need).
4. Giving the broader vision and knowledge in Human Rights, Child Rights, Philosophy, Religion and democracy.
5. Giving the lesson of martial art, dancing, and theater training in the center of alternative education.
6. Monitoring the learning process of students in apprenticeship
7. Reporting the students' learning process and progress result.
8. Conducting evaluation on the learning process and the progress result.
9. Revise the education model and curriculum.
2. Alternative Education for Street Children
Started in 1990, KKSP runs Alternative Education for Street Children, by using the street and center based approaches. This program organizes and facilitates approximately 350 street children in four-locations e.g. Integrated Bus Station of Amplas, and Pinang Baris Bus station, Central Market of Sambu, Petisah market, Aksara Plaza and downtown locations. Most of the children come from outside of Medan. They work and live without any family's attention. Beside the lack of education, attention and love, they face so many violence's, either physically and non physically.
Alternative Education given to street children is an out of school education, where children could access many educational media available in Taman Kebajikan instead of learning in the class as in schooling system. Taman Kebajikan tries to introduce the principle of learning that does not recognize the space limit in its approach. The providing of learning facilities at Open house, Musical House, gallery and street based are carried out to achieve the actual objective of Alternative Education. The objective of out of school education is to develop character, broaden knowledge and skill, but still taking into account the principle of pluralism, participation and everybody is a teacher.
The approach of out of school education is implemented in the educational activities namely are:
1. Literacy
2. Social and Moral Value
3. Human Rights
4. Child Rights
5. Principles of Child participation and democracy
6. Labour Rights
7. Leadership
8. Association
9. Handicraft
Besides that, the art and sport are placed as educational media for children both media of liberation and organizing among children community as well. Hence, the foundation is working on organizing on street children in North Sumatra and forming the North Sumatra children's organization compose of street children, rural children, child labour and children from another sectors. Creative media to be developed are:
1. Art Club:
• Music Club
• Theatre Club
• Painting
• Poetry
2. Sports
Education on street children also included journalistic education for children through "Tualang" media. "Tualang" is a children's magazine, which is managed by children started from news hunting, printing to distribution.
Division of Research and Information
Division of Research and Information develops an information program to distribute information about condition of the children who need special protection in Indonesia particularly in North Sumatra. Furthermore, the information program also tries to develop education for society regarding problem on child rights via E-mail, press release etc.
Collecting data program, data cases and research are performed through database that is analyzed and distributed to various media regularly. Hence, Division of Research and Information has distributed the information about child's problem to various media via post, News E-mail KKSP News and Website as well. Besides that, in research, KKSP Foundation also conducts various research namely are research on child labour on jermal and their families, research on prostituted children and research on health and food condition of society after the monetary crisis. The Foundation also conducts researches on Human Rights particularly child rights. The outputs are the writings/articles about human right and child rights. Hence, the Foundation will publish two books. One is about child labour on jermal and the course of KKSP Foundation in advocating child labour on jermal since 1993.
Division of Advocacy
Division of Advocacy is to provide protection for children who need special protection. KKSP Foundation tries to develop non-litigation advocacy. Thus, the division of Information and advocacy is an integrated part since the final output of the information is advocacy. The non-litigation advocacy is implemented through:
1. Monitoring the violation and abuse cases on street children.
2. Monitoring the progress condition of child labour on jermal
3. Investigation and monitoring on the condition of prostituted children
4. Investigation and monitoring on Internally Displace Children
5. Campaign on problem of children who need special protection through media of electronic such as radio, inter-net and television and printed media such as newsletter, Newspaper and magazine either national or international.
6. Seminar/Workshop
7. Empowering the community base
8. Make pressure for the child-oriented policies changing on the House of Representative and Parliament.
9. Working with the street children whom have conflict with the law.
Nevertheless, KKSP does not "close its eyes" to perform efforts on legislation advocacy on problems that considered unfair to children. KKSP pressed charges in collaboration with legal aid institutions. The press charges, which had been conducted, are namely:
1. Press charge on the police for the case of death street children
2. Sue the entrepreneur of plaza in Medan city, for torturing on street children
3. Sue the entrepreneur of jermal for labouring children
4. Recommending the allocation budget for child protection to the North Sumatra House of Representative.
5. Proposing draft of Anti violence on Children Law with another NGOs.
Division of Health
This division is to improve the health quality of society and children particularly children who need special protection. Programs and activities of this division are namely:
1. Medical services for poor society and children through the clinic of Taman Sehat of KKSP Foundation
2. Regular medical check up and providing nutritious food on street children.
3. The promotion self-effort of health through open discussions with the children.
Division of Economic Protection
This division is to provide economic education and small business for children therefore the children will have skill and knowledge to have independent live in the future. The models of economic protection are:
1. Education about Skill
2. Education about management of small business
