A proposed compulsory education model for street children

Pages: 343-347
Uyu Wahyudin (Faculty of Education, Indonesia University of Education, Indonesia)

With only one year left before 2015, many challenges are still ahead for Indonesia to achieve the Education for All (EFA) targets. According to a study conducted in 2010, in an effort to develop a nine years compulsory education model for street children, it was established that there several factors that influence the existence of street children. This leads to varying groups of street children which comprise: of the street children, on the street children and the vulnerable children who are not getting education. The main factors leading to this situation are two: divorce of the parents because of poverty or lack of harmony in the family, which is categorized as a family problem. Second, the social and environmental problems which include: limited awareness of the society about the importance of education. With such a situation, it is necessary to propose several alternative models which can help to improve the implementation of education for the street children if governments are to meet the targets of the EFA.