Implementation Of Child-Friendly City Policy In Karawang City, West Java: Supporting Early Childhood Creative Play Acrivities

Abstract

SSince the birth of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the resulting "A World Fit For Children", the world community began to work together to create a child-friendly environment. Indonesia issued the Child-Friendly Regency / City (KLA) program as a policy for each district/city in Indonesia to ensure that the fulfilment of children's rights and protection is carried out in a planned and systematic manner to achieve a Child-Friendly Indonesia. One of the problems stated in the 2021 Karawang district RPJMD is that the implementation of KLA has not been optimized. Even so, Karawang City received an intermediate rank in KLA implementation in 2019. The purpose of this study is to see whether the implementation of KLA policies supports the implementation of creative play activities in Early Childhood Education. Using the literature review method, collecting data from various sources and interviews with employees of the Office of Empowerment and Protection and documentation, it can be concluded that the implementation of KLA in Karawang City is still being optimized both in budget priorities and also socialization of KLA to the wider community in Karawang City.