OPTIMIZATION OF CHILD-FRIENDLY CITY DEVELOPMENT POLICY IN YOGYAKARTA CITY
Abstract
Along with the development of technology, every child is required to be more creative and smart in its usage. The
negative impact of technology development raises the number of acts of violence, both verbal and nonverbal, committed
by parents to children or among the children. Thus, the protection of children's rights is the responsibility of every
human being, including the government, the environment, the family. The community must contribute to the fulfillment
and safeguarding of children's rights contained in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In 2018, Yogyakarta was
already at nindya level for child-friendly cities in Indonesia. The fulfillment of children's rights emphasized in
Yogyakarta was the freedom of thought and expression safely and comfortably. This study aims to examine the role of
local governments in implementing Local Regulation Number 1 of 2016 concerning child-friendly cities in order to
create such a city. This research is a normative-empirical study with a qualitative descriptive approach. The results
concluded that the Yogyakarta regional government had carried out its role well in making Yogyakarta a child-friendly
city by planning and carrying out an integrated program to realize the child-friendly city.