Presidential Instruction on child protection soon : minister
Antara News, Tuesday, February 16, 2010 22:56 WIB
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The government is soon to issue a Presidential Instruction (Inpres) as the legal basis for concrete action to protect children in the country, a social services official said.
The government`s plan to issue the Inpres was mentioned by Social Affairs Minister Salim Segaf al Jufri in a dialogue with participants of a workshop on child welfare here Tuesday, according to Saoto Waluyo, a senior adviser to the minister.
The Inpres would be the legal basis for the launching of national child protection movement, he said.
The minister on the occasion cited official statistical data showing there were 230,000 street children and 5.4 million abandoned ones in Indonensia in 2006. But now the figures had dropped to 147,000 and 4.8 million respectively.
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