Abstrack:
The existence of street children is a social problem of major cities in Indonesia. Street children are seen by the public as a bully public order on the road. Numerous attempts have been made by the government to hammer out the issue of street children, but it can’t make children stop to return to the streets. The aim of this research is to find out form handling problems street children program in accordance with the situation in Surakarta and to make a new model of treatment of street children which could be developed by stakeholders. The kind of research is descriptive qualitative. Technique of taking samples with purposive sampling and snowball sampling. Data collection techniques used are in-depth interviews, observation and study of documentation. The validity test of the data used, triangulation of data and methods. Analysis techniques using interactive data analysis. The results showed that the characteristics of street children community in Surakarta are children at the street, children on the street, children in the street, and homeless children. Handling of street children program always fails due to not yet existing coordination among stakeholders and civil society. The model the handling of street children to seek cooperation among stakeholders, the evaluation together with any handling, counselling and empowerment of children and their families.
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