Tanggung Jawab Pemerintah Daerah Kota Pekanbaru Terhadap Perlindungan Anak Terlantar Berdasarkan Peraturan Daerah Provinsi Riau Nomor 3 Tahun 2013 Tentang Perlindungan Hak Dasar Anak

Abstract

Homeless children are children who spend most of their time doing daily living activities on the
streets, to make a living or roam the streets and other public places. One of the social welfare problems that
are still flourish in Pekanbaru today is homeless children. Children are the next generation the ideals of the
struggle of a nation that has s strategic role and have special characteristics and properties that are
expected to ensure the continued existence of the nation and the state in the future.given the position and
hope to the children as the potential and future of the nation so that the child may deserve the attention of
all parties so that children can grow and develop naturally and avoid the treatment and the wrong action,
violence, discrimination which would undermine the development of the child, wheter physical, mental, and
social development.
This research is motivated by the high number of homeless children in Pekanbaru City so the author
considers it’s important to know how the responsibility of the provincial government for the protection of
homeless children, what causes the number of homeless children in Pekanbaru City, and what are the efforts
of the provincial government in overcoming the number of homeless children in Pekanbaru City. This study
uses Riau Province Regional Regulation Number 3 of 2013 about the Protection of Children’s Basic Rights
which has 4 (four) indicators, namely: 1. Social Rehabilitation; 2. Mentoring; 3. Empowerment; and 4.
Social Assistance. Based on this regional regulation, the authors obtained research results that: 1. The
implementation of the protection of homeless children is still not optimal; 2. Obstacles in implementing the
protection of homeless children, namely the limited resources owned by the City of Pekanbaru, both human
resources and non-human resources.
This research was conducted at Pekanbaru Departement of Human Service and Riau Departement of
Human Service, while the population and samples were all parties related to the problems studied in this
study. The data collection methods used in this study were observation, interviews, questionnaires, and
literature study. Sourcec of data used are primary data, secondary data, and tertiary data.

Keywords: Responsibility, Protection, Homeless Children.