Peran Dinas Sosial dalam Usaha Penanggulangan Gelandangan dan Pengemis di Kota Medan

Abstract

Social problems are one of the main problems faced by many developing countries, including Indonesia. One of the common problems found around us is homelessness and beggars. As a big city, Medan City is not free from the problem of homeless people and beggars. The Medan City Social Service has a role as a government organization responsible for handling and overcoming social problems, in this research especially homeless people and beggars. Based on this background, the problem in this research can be identified, namely regarding the role of the Social Service in efforts to overcome homelessness and beggars in the city of Medan. Based on the problem formulation in this research, the Medan City Social Service has carried out its role in efforts to deal with homeless people and beggars. The handling process carried out by social services is to carry out several efforts, including preemptive, preventive, responsive and rehabilitative efforts. Preventive efforts are programs that are carried out as early as possible with the aim of prevention. Preventive Efforts are outreach programs that provide employment opportunities to vulnerable community groups. Responsive efforts are programs carried out with the aim of controlling things, such as raids. Rehabilitative efforts are rehabilitation programs carried out in shelters such as social institutions. The results of this research show that the program carried out by the Medan City Social Service and based on Regional Regulation No. 4 of 2008 concerning handling homeless people and beggars has been carried out well, but there are still shortcomings in implementing preventive efforts because there is no program that aims to provide employment opportunities for vulnerable communities, lack of facilities and infrastructure such as the absence of social institutions belonging to the Medan City Social Service and lack of public awareness. Data collection techniques in this research were carried out using interviews, observation, documentation, and then analyzed using a qualitative approach.