10. Foster child is a child who is cared for by someone or an institution to be given guidance,
nurturing, treatment, education, and health, because his/her parents,or one of them, are not able to
guarantee the child’s decent growth and development.
11. Caregiving authority is parents’ authority to care for, educate, nurture, guide, protect and to grow
and develop a child in accordance with the religion one embraces and his/her competencies,
talents and interests.
12. Child’s rights are parts of human rights which oblige parents, family, communities, the
government, and state to guarantee, to protect and to fulfill them.
13. Community is individuals, families, groups, and social and/or public organizations.
14. Accompanying officer is a social worker who possesses professional competencies in his/her
fields.
15. Special protection is the protection provided for a child in cases of emergency, a child implicated
with laws, a child from a minority group and isolated, a child who is economically and/or
sexually exploited, a child traded for, a child who becomes a victim of drug abuse, alcoholic
drinks, psychotropic substances, and other addictive substances (napza), a child victim of
kidnapping, selling, and trafficking, a child victim of physical and/or mental violence, a child
with disabilities, and a child of mistreatment and abandonment.
16. Every person is individual or corporation.
17. Government is the Government that consists of Central Government and Local Government.
CHAPTER II
PRINCIPLES AND AIMS
Chapter 2
Child protection actsprincipled on The Five Principles (Pancasila) and the Constitution of1945 of
Republic of Indonesiaand basic principles of Convention of Child’s Rights consist of:
a.
b.
c.
d.
non-discrimination;
best interest for children;
rights to live, survive, and develo; and
appreciationof child’s opinion.
Article 3
Child’s protection is aimed to guarantee the fulfillment of child’s rights to live, grow, develop, and
participate optimally in line with dignity of humanity, and acquire protection from violence and
discrimination, for realization of quality Indonesian children who have noble morals and are wellbeing.
CHAPTER III
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