Farida lives in Surabaya. It was in 1999 when she started paying attention to a group of three or four kids brought by a lady. The lady sat down at the corner of the street and give eyes to those children who were forced to beg coins from passer by who were stopping at the traffic light. That place is dangerous section where everybody was in a rush to go by car or motorcycle. The other thing, that place is very toxic place for the children too, since that section is the place where all vehicle would blow the carbon dioxide from the car or motorcycle. Farida also noticed that those children were brought home at eight or nine o’clock in the night. Those unfortunate children had spent every all day long in that section for couple years. Being a witness of that phenomenon, Farida started grumbling about poverty, about the gap between the rich and the poor, about the cost of living, about the policy, about corruption, about the children safety, and many other else. And now after more than a decade she realized that she haven't done anything for those children.
Social Policy is a policy that gives opportunity to everybody to access a good living condition, a humane welfare, or living in dignity. As an action, social policy may be understood as an effort taken by everybody to propose and campaign for a fair policy in a local or national house of representative.
Now that Farida realized this, what has she decided to do, to help create change?
ReplyDeleteWhat kinds of organizations in Indonesia help create social policy changes? What gaps still to be filled that are most important?
Would love to know, thank you for creating this blog.