{"id":1034,"date":"2010-12-03T09:02:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T09:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2010-12-03T09:02:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T09:02:16","slug":"islamic-schools-save-indonesia-street-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/12\/03\/1034\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic Schools Save Indonesia Street Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"islamic-school\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/islamic-school.jpg\" width=\"258\" height=\"203\" \/>Indonesia is selecting thousands of unfortunate children living on the street across the world\u2019s most populous Muslim nation to join Islamic boarding schools, locally known as Pesantren, under a new government\u2019s program.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis is the first selection to sort out those who are eligible to join Pesantren,\u201d Sapto Waluya, a spokesman for the Social Minister, told OnIslam.<br \/> \u201cFor the beginning we are recruiting five thousands students in Jakarta alone.\u201d<br \/>Waluya said the government is inviting NOGs and a number of business entities to make the project possible and reaching the target.<br \/>He stressed that addressing the problem of street children, estimated to number some 232,000, including 12,000 in the capital city alone, is a top priority for the Social Ministry, Religious Ministry, Education Ministry and Women\u2019s Empowerment and Child Protection Ministry.<br \/> \u201cOur office and the Religious Ministry are focusing on Pesantren.\u201d<br \/>The Religious Ministry has provided 4.5 billion rupiah (500,000 US dollars) from the state budget to finance the Pesantren for street children program, Waluya said.<br \/>The program is expected to commence in the first semester early next year for Jakarta only, noted the official.<br \/>Classified as street children in Indonesia are those homeless children who spend more than five hours a day on the street as beggars, vendors, rubbish collectors and even thieves.<br \/> \u201cNot all of them are expected to join Pesantren because some of them are eligible to be entrepreneurs,\u201d Waluya said.<br \/> \u201cWe have made an agreement with Carrefour supermarket to absorb handicrafts made by the street children.\u201d<br \/>Beside Jakarta, East Java is the most ready province to run the project compared with other cities due to the readiness of Pesantrens.<br \/> \u201cWe will be placing them in the Pesantrens that belong to Nahdlatul Ulama,\u201d East Java Province Deputy Governor Saefullah Yusuf told OnIslam.<br \/>Yusuf said they have chosen 1500 street children to join Pesantrens in which the tuition fees would be fully covered by the Religious Ministry.<br \/>He added that his provincial administration is examining a new curriculum special for street children education.<\/p>\n<p>Difficult Mission<\/p>\n<p>Women Empowerment and Child Protection Minister Linda Amalia Sari said saving hundreds of thousands of street children from poverty was not an easy task but the involvement of Pesantren to educate them is a good signal that the mission would be accomplished.<br \/> \u201cI expect no more children living on the street in 2014,\u201d she told reporters, adding that her ministry would intensively cooperate with other ministries and NGOs in implementing programs to tackle the problem of children living on the streets.<br \/>But Nur Rohim Siswanto, an activist who has been working with street children over the past decade, argues that the government program seems idealistic.<br \/>He thinks implementing the mission is not as easy as expected, citing his empirical experience in leading a school for the homeless.<br \/> \u201cThey are rowdy individuals difficult to be ruled formally and bureaucratically,\u201d Siswanto, the head of Pesantren Bina Insan Mandiri, an Islamic-based education center for street children teaching students from primary school to senior high schools levels, told OnIslam.net.<br \/>He says most street children are the victim of illegal marriage and broken families.<br \/> \u201cSo, what they need first is sincere attention instead of parent,\u201d insisted Siswanto, who manages 2000 street children in his Pesantren.<br \/> \u201cWe have to find the source of problem first then think about their education.\u201d<br \/>According to him, the current government plan is not new.<br \/>The same project had been tried previously by a respected Pesantren in Bandung, with 10 billion rupiah (US$1.2 million) government funds, but totally failed.<br \/> \u201cThey ran away from Pesantren because of rigid system of education.\u201d<br \/>Siswanto suggested that the government switches the proposal by making partnership with the existing street children foundations or Pesantrens.<br \/> \u201cIf they want to help the street children why don\u2019t they come to my Pesantren and work together?<br \/> \u201cOnly Social Ministry gives us regularly 3000 rupiah (4 US cent) a day for each student.\u201d<br \/>Siswanto\u2019s Islamic foundation relays on a number of zakah organizations, NGOs and individual donations for financial support.<br \/> \u201cWe raise money also from selling snacks, printing banners and providing various services, such as massage and shoe polishing,\u201d he said.<br \/> \u201cWe build it like family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: OnIslam<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indonesia is selecting thousands of unfortunate children living on the street across the world\u2019s most populous Muslim nation to join Islamic boarding schools, locally known as Pesantren, under a new government\u2019s 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