society, which grew from the bottom where the
management based on the concept of "FROM, BY
and FOR" the community towards the establishment
of a family of faith and piety to God Almighty,
Noble and virtuous, prosperous, advanced and
independent, justice and gender equality, and legal
and environmental awareness.
Family welfare the main objective of the PKK.
This is because the family is the smallest unit of
society that will greatly affect the performance of
development in support of government programs.
From this prosperous family, the living order of
nation and state will be able to give birth to peace,
security, harmony, and peace. Thus, family welfare
becomes one of the benchmarks and barometers in
development with government programs (Salfiah,
2013).
The PKK is a movement to assist and support
government programs by listing some of the
necessary aspects such as health (in particular) and
education that are significantly related to the growth
and rights of the child. The existence of the PKK
movement has been widely acknowledged as a
movement from and by the community, a partner of
the government in carrying out development. This
women-driven movement also proved to support the
development acceleration through the 10 main
programs implemented by this organization. PKK
movement as a movement from below and beneficial
to society especially in rural area. In addition, it also
plays a role in developing the world of education,
especially in Early Childhood Education (PAUD),
PKK Health Sector is required to revive Posyandu
and help assist mothers who give birth and will give
birth, thus reducing maternal and child mortality
during childbirth, in the economic field is expected
PKK Help small and medium businesses done by
mothers.
Then what about child protection? Child growth
in our society is very socially close to the role of a
woman as a mother. Child growth includes health,
education, recreation and child care. PKK as an
executive motor of various national policies related
to the family welfare program is very potential to
familiarize the understanding of children's rights as
the spearhead of the realization of child protection.
In Surakarta, the PKK program is aimed to support
the implementation of both central and city
government programs. When Kota Surakarta formed
PPT (Integrated Service Post) which was used as a
service place for handling violence against women
and children early in urban village level, PKK
became one of the participating movers in it.
Similarly, when formed KLA working group in
every village, PKK cadres become significant to be
involved in it. PKK cadres then continue all the
information obtained from above hierarchically to be
forwarded to the grassroots (the community) ie the
mothers. PKK is formed hierarchically in cities, sub-
districts, villages, RWs and RTs down to a smaller
scale ie "dasa wisma" (consisting of 10 families).
Within the scope of community-based child
protection, Unicef (2016) explains that the
framework undertaken targets communities, families
and children. Thus, the PKK is one of the goals to
develop an understanding of the rights of children at
the community level and to bring it to the family
level for the ultimate goal of child protection.
In Kota Surakarta, PKK activities at RT level are
mandatory for all families (mothers) every month.
PKK activities are usually held in the afternoon with
the main focus of information from the top
government, social gathering and savings and loans,
social activities and other additional activities. In
many neighborhoods, PKK activities are also
conducted to coordinate other matters concerning
community life such as wastes, security fees, and
other communal activities (17 August, Eid al-Adha,
halal bi halal) as well as posyandu activities for
children under five and the elderly and various
activities other. Additional activities are usually
done by bringing in sources from various parties
related to information about something, usually
cooking skills or demonstrations of household needs
and health education. All of which leads to a more
prosperous family.
In every sub-district the obligation for mothers to
follow the PKK every month is applied. This is
captured by PKK managers at the city level as a tool
to conduct various socializations related to
government policies, especially child protection.
They organize competitions in each area ranging
from healthy babies and posyandu which in it
requires mother's knowledge about child health and
also child protection. The competition was initiated
at the city level and then down to the sub-district
level to the village / kelurahan level. In the focus
group discussions conducted during the study it was
found that various child protection policy programs
were integrated through PKK activities with the
main target of women as socially cultured mothers
constructed as the main buffer of child care.
In the context of child protection, the PKK is
usually involved by the municipality to participate in
socialization tailored to the city's annual activity
plan. In the socialization, usually, only PKK cadres
are included to then convey to the community at the
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