Homeless Children Who Eat Leftovers

After praying for the prosperity in celebrating gold anniversary of our organization, PMII (Indonesian Moslem Student Movement), April 17, 2010, we have big dinner by eating fifty tumpeng, a ceremonial dish of yellow rice which is served in a cone shape. It was shocking that our dinner leftovers were taken by some messy children.

We were curious to know what they are going to do with that dirty food, soon we follow them. There were 20s teens who were waiting for them, then, they fight over the food.

They eat them fastly, they were not think about their health if they consum that kind of disgusting meal.

“No matter for us, we usually gather in front of party building to get our food,” Fatkur, a 17-years old boy who has three piercing in his left ears.

“We just want to continue our life by eating any food we get,” Rina, a 16 years old girl who use black super high heels.

Not only the matter of their daily meal but also their pattern of socialization. They think that they are a big family since they are not recognized as their parent’s kids. It makes them share everything each other including drugs or even sex. It is common that they usually consumpt drugs together and having sexual relation. They feel free to do that because there is no one who see or even give attention to their daily life. As long as not disturbing public rights, they will do anything they want.

As the matter of fact, Fatkur and Rina were the member of one of rooming houses which is funded by social department in this city but they were not happy and run away from this house. They were not get freedom since they should earn minimally Rp. 20.000 a day to pay their food and their room. They were exploited.

Related to their health condition, the data of the health department of east java has shown that in 2009 there is 60 percents of homeless children in Malang are infected by HIV-AIDS. This result is gained after taking the sample randomly in the beginning of last year. The samples were taken from some rooming houses and nomade children who usually stay in front of shops and sides of roads.

Most of them do not know that this virus is very dangerous. They do not know that this can take their life. “We never think that we will die”, Rina stated.
They hope that the government of this country give more attention, every children born in this country is the future of this nation. They have an equal rights in accesing every facilities available for the children of nation.