Jatinangor, Sumedang – Padjadjaran PR Fair held a talk show that raised the issue of violence against children. This issue was raised due to a lack of public awareness that could affect the child’s future. Padjadjaran PR Talk is one of a series of events in The 11th Padjadjaran Public Relations Fair (PPRF). And this year the Padjadjaran PR Talk has a big theme “An Approach to Prevent the Flow of Violence Against Children in Indonesia”. This talkshow was held on Thursday, 11 May 2023 online via the Zoom platform and YouTube livestream by presenting resource persons who are highly experts in their fields, which of course are related to cases of child abuse in Indonesia. Among them are the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection, UNICEF Indonesia, the National Commission for Child Protection and Child Psychologists.
The Padjadjaran Public Relations Fair (PPRF) itself is an international scale public relations competition held annually by the Public Relations Student Association of the Faculty of Communication Sciences, Padjadjaran University since 2011 which is intended for students. In its series, PPRF always raises the theme of national problems currently being experienced by Indonesia. In this 11th year, PPRF adopts a big theme, namely “Stop Violence Against Children: Make a Better Future For Them”. PPRF raised this theme as a response to provide new insight into the real conditions of child violence in Indonesia.
The talkshow is divided into 2 segments, the first segment is the Padjadjaran PR Talk with the theme “Indonesia’s Government Actions to Break the Chain of Child Violence” which focuses on discussing programs created by the government in response to cases of child abuse in Indonesia presenting speakers directly from the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection, namely Mr. Nahar S.H., M.Si as Deputy for Special Protection of Children. In the second segment, the Padjadjaran PR Talk with the theme “The Hidden Truth: Emergency of Sexual Violence At School Against Children” focused on finding out more about the responses of the 3 speakers who attended, namely Mr. Arist Merdeka Sirait as General Chair of the National Commission for Child Protection, Ms. Pritta Novia Lora Damanik as the National Consultant for the Prevention of Violence to the UNICEF Indonesia Education Unit, and Ms. Lila Pratiwi S.Psi., M.Sc., as a Child Psychologist regarding cases of violence against Indonesian children which continue to increase.
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Author : Jasmine Elshafa A.
