Faktor-faktor Penyebab Anak Menjadi Anak Jalanan di Kelurahan Sei Mati Kecamatan Medan Maimun Kota Medan

Abstract

One of the problems of children who until now there is the problem of street children. Street children is a phenomenon that never moribund outposts throughout the major cities in Indonesia, such as Medan. Meningktanya need for food, clothing, housing and the difficulty of the competition resulted in children's lives should also be taking to the streets doing all sorts of activities in the street in order to meet the necessities of life. Bertujan of this study to determine the factors that cause children to become street children in Sub Sei Mati subdistrict of Medan Maimun Medan. With the hope to have a positive influence in the effort handlers street children. This research is descriptive and qualitative approach by analyzing the factors that cause children to become street children in Sub Sei Mati subdistrict of Medan Maimun Medan. Therefore in this study is not known and the sample population. Rather informants who provide information that is clear, accurate and reliable, both in the form of statements, information or data that can help meet problems or concerns. The informants divided into three, including key informants, ie 5 street children, additional informa that parents of street children as many as five people, and key informants that one person's head Sei Mati village district of Medan Maimun Medan. To obtain information or data through library research and field studies, namely by means of observation and interviews. In this study it can be concluded that based on the information and data that have been obtained in the research process that become factors that cause children to become street children in Sub Sei Mati subdistrict of Medan Maimun Medan caused by three factors, namely micro factors (originating from within him and his family), factor messo (caused by the social environment), and the macro factors, namely, (their chances of employment in the informal sector who do not really need the capital and expertise they need to be on the streets, the cost of higher education and also not diverse elements of the government views as a group of street children who need care)