RISK OF CHILDREN’S VIOLENCE BY SOCIAL AND DEMOGRAPHICAL FACTORS IN SLUM AREA SURABAYA INDONESIA

Abstract: Nowdays more and more cases of abuse against children, whether physical, verbal, emotional, or sexual. Some
factors that could be the cause of abuse against children include family dysfunction, economic factors, and misperceptions
about how to educate children. Based on data from the Ministry of Women and Children's Empowerment (Kemen PP &
Anak) per 2010, the number of 25 million Indonesian children has experienced various forms of abuse. The mean abuse is
due to family economic pressures and poor parental understanding of parenting. Related to this issue, the Government has
issued the Regulation of the Minister of Women Protection (PP) & Child Protection (PA) Number 2 Year 2010 on National
Action Plan for the Prevention and Handling of Abuse against Children. Areas prone to abuse against children, such as in
densely populated areas, slums and remote villages. The research method is qualitative with analytical descriptive approach
in data analysis. The results of data analysis in the form of exposure to some observed variables, and the relationship between
these variables. In the study found that, residents who live in slums or densely populated vulnerable to abuse in children,
whether physical abuse, psychological / emotional, and verbal abuse. Children with poorly educated / out-of-school parents,
with no regular employment, low religious knowledge and practice are more at risk / more likely to experience abuse.
Likewise with children whose parents marry young, the number of children and many have a dark past as victims of abuse in
the care of their parents, also have a greater risk of becoming victims of abuse. Child abuse also causes non-fulfillment of
children's access to the right to life, including the right to education services that cause children to drop out of school. In
conclusion, there is a model of linkage between the risk of child abuse and social and demographic factors in the slums.
Keywords: child abuse, social factors, demography