Violence against Children Survey

in Indonesia:

up date and learning from Indonesia’s experience

UNICEF Asia Pacific Meeting on Research on Violence Against Children Bangkok 25-27 June 2013

Presented by : Indonesian Delegates

Dr. Ir. Pribudiarta Nur Sitepu, M.M.

Dra. Alit Kurniasari, M.P. Indah Erniawati S.Sos

WHY WE DO IT?

WHERE ARE WE NOW?

VACS IN INDONESIA

FROM PLANNING TO NOW

• VACS workshop in mid 2011

• Fund commitments (mid 2011 and mid

2012)

• Preparation

• Protocol in early 2013

• Trainings for team leaders in April, for

interviewers in June

• Data collection starts this week

CHILD PROTECTION DATA AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING

• Child Protection is a cross-sectoral priority in the 2010- 2014

National Mid-Term Development Plan

• The Mid-term Development acknowledges challenges on

data related to child protection, and makes improvement of

child protection data a priority

The Need for high-quality child protection data, especially data of Violence against

Children(VaC)

National VaC Prevalence Survey

NATIONAL PARTNERS

VACS IN INDONESIA

NATIONAL PARTNERS

• The National Development Planning

Agency

• The Ministry of Women Empowerment and

Child Protection

• The Ministry of Social Affairs

• The National Statistic Agency

• UNICEF and other partners

THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AGENCY

2011:

• Coordinating preparation

• Leading intersectoral advocacy

2011 and 2012

• Securing financial resources for 2012 and 2013

- securing the fund to two ministries

- MOWCP: more than US$ 700,000

-MOSA: more than US$ 500,000

2013 and 2014

• Follow up for the next Mid Term Development Plan

MOWCP

• Financial commitment (2012)

• Preparation:

- formulating the response plan

• Data collection:

- Managing secretariat for response plan

• After data collection:

- engage in preliminary and final reports

- dissemination of results of VACS in Indonesia, formulating a policy Brief related to VaC

- follow-up action (i.e. strategy for prevention)

MOSA

• Fund commitment

• Leading the preparation, implementation, and analysis

• Human resources

- researchers from Social Welfare Research Center

- team leaders from 3 MOSA’s research centers and college of social welfare

- social workers as interviewers

- team of social workers for response plan

The National Statistics Agency

• Sampling design

• Updating block census

• Gate keeper during the data collecting process

• Data analysis

UNICEF

• Support preparation of VaC prevalence survey

• Technical assistance (coordination with CDC) for implementing VaC prevalence survey

INDONESIA’S EXPERIENCES

SO FAR

VACS IN INDONESIA

SAMPLING DESIGN

CHALLENGES

• 33 provinces, 4 main Islands, 17,000 islands

• Diverse population density

• Various characteristics: social, economy, cultural

• Demand for sub-national level data

OUR STRATEGY

• Sample stratification include dividing into

- 5 regions

- rural and urban stratification

TOTAL selected households : 11.250

TOTAL PSUs: 125 in 25 provinces

Questionnaire Adaptation

o Need to adapt the questionnaire

- language

- contexts

- disclosure

RESPONSE PLAN

• Rarely a sensitive survey incorporate a

response plan

• Sufficient structure

- Rapid Response Team of MOSA

- Integrated service Centers

Response Plan (2)

If the Respondent:

-Being very sad when interviewed -Said that she/he feels insecure -Has experience in violation and indicated that she/he feels insecure with her/his life -has the tendency of suicide

Interviewer

offers the aid/ referral

FINISH

Interviewer shows the list of service agency to handle violence against children

Respondent with no VaC problems

Interviewer

asks the respondent’s permission to give his/her name to the service agency

Re

ject

Interviewer fills the referral form

asks how the social worker can meet the respondent

Team Leader

Secretariat of Response Plan

Social Worker

Visits the respondent and does the assessment

Treatment for the Victim is based on guidelines/ SOP/ Mechanism

ETHICS

Challenge:

- Ethical review rarely conducted, including

for sensitive researches

With VACS

- 2 ethical reviews

- Introducing strict ethical protocols to the

partners

SOCIAL WORKERS AS INTERVIEWERS

• 40 teams and more than 120 interviewers

• Interviewers: Social Worker, Bachelor of Social Studies

WAY FORWARD

VACS IN INDONESIA

Way Forward

The result of the VAC Prevalence Survey should be input for :

1) Formulate the policy brief related to the child protection and VAC prevention in Indonesia ;

2) Baseline to arrange medium term national development planning 2015-2019. Data can as baseline to determine program indicator and target;

3) Improvement the VAC elimination national service ;

4) build a comprehensive child protection system in Indonesia by high quality prevalence data

THANK YOU