The Selangor government will provide grants to help unregistered care centres comply with regulatory requirements, said state women and family empowerment, social welfare and care economy committee chairman Anfaal Saari in response to the police raids on the 20 care centres in Selangor and Negri Sembilan recently over child abuse claims.
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00:00I actually, on Tuesday, when the early information about the police will hold a meeting and detention,
00:18I contacted the Director of the Ministry of Social Welfare of the People's Republic of Indonesia
00:23and told them that the children who will be saved will be under the care of the PDRM police
00:29until the magistrate allows them to be in a safe house under the JKM
00:36and then I can get clearance to visit them.
00:39So, as early as Friday, but until Friday, I haven't received a release.
00:45So, we wait for the right time, maybe this coming week
00:49because as far as I know, yesterday, there were two batches.
00:54From a total of 412 children, there were two groups that were sent to the welfare home under the care of the JKM.
01:04So, for policy-wise, in terms of exploitation, is there any discussion about the policy that may be prevented?
01:12There are three things related to this case.
01:15First, exploitation of children.
01:18Trading from the point of misuse of underage children for business purposes.
01:24That's the first.
01:25Second, neglect.
01:27Meaning, if they have parents,
01:30the parents cannot neglect their responsibilities and make the children deny their rights.
01:37Third, if there is sexual harassment,
01:41they have also violated one of the regulations.
01:45And in terms of the state government,
01:48before this issue arose,
01:50we have been concerned with establishing a special authority to improve care services.
01:57When we talk about care services,
01:59it includes children in TASKAR and also children in care centres,
02:05including the elderly in care centres.
02:07The issue is that most of the care centres that are supposed to register with the JKM
02:12operate illegally or do not register.
02:16And we are not sure whether they are trained,
02:20their rights are protected, and so on.
02:22So, we want to investigate whether there is an improvement in the guidelines
02:27or the establishment of small laws under the authority of the local authorities
02:32or the establishment of an enactment under the state government.
02:35Since last year, since I was appointed as SFO,
02:39there have been several series of clearance operations from the JKM.
02:44This year, we have received more than 600 unregistered TASKAR members.
02:53400 have been cleared.
02:57200 have been confirmed to be fired.
03:00And there are still 400 that have not been registered.
03:04We will help in various processes.
03:08One of the challenges is the cost.
03:12It is not just the different processes in the PBT,
03:20but also in terms of the cost of consultation,
03:25and also to get the right to plan,
03:28and also to change the status of the building.
03:30So, looking at the root cause of this problem,
03:34the state government will open a channel to help,
03:38maybe not much, but with a significant amount,
03:42to start the registration of TASKAR members.