Cooperation Between Parents and School on Sex Education to Prevent Sexual Abuse in Early Childhood Case Study: Sex Education Implementation in Budi Mulia Dua Sedayu Kindergarten

摘要

The awareness of sex education in Indonesia is still low. This concern can be seen by the increase in sexual abuse cases that occurred in the last 3 years. 70 cases in 2017, 149 cases in 2018, and until July of 2019 there were 78 cases of sexual abuse in children. The causes were the lack of control from adults, and sex education is still considered a taboo subject. This paper would like to analyze parents' perspectives about sex education and the school's efforts to implement sex education in Budi Mulia Dua Sedayu Kindergarten. This research uses the qualitative approach with an in-depth interview in examining data with the parents and teachers, observation, also the literature review. The result of this study reveals the following: firstly, parents think that sex education is an important thing as a preventive action to sexual abuse. Secondly, the school has done the program with the explanation and active act in school. However, in reality, some problems occurred like toilets that is not divided by gender, and adult that changes the child's clothes on the open space. The implication of this study is to bring school and parents to know and develop more about their awareness about sex education.