Badiklitpensos Intensively Socializes Social Worker Law

JAKARTA (November 22, 2019) - The passing of the Social Workers Act (Peksos, red) makes this profession have legal certainty. This legal umbrella will optimize the role, function, as well as become a formal legal mandate and protection of social workers in carrying out social work practices.

Badiklitpensos continues to aggressively socialize the Law on Social Workers. One of them was through publication workshops in the dissemination of information regarding Law No. 14 of 2019 concerning Social Workers.

"The existence of social workers have an important role in efforts to develop social welfare," said Head of the Social Research and Counseling Education Agency (Badiklit Pensos) Ministry of Social Affairs (Kemensos) Syahabuddin in his remarks at a workshop on publication of information on law number 14 of 2019 concerning social work, Jakarta, Thursday (11/21/2019).

In this workshop series also presented a talk show with the theme, "Where do the Social Worker Profession Head to???" presents several figures who played an important role in the birth of the social workers' law, namely TB Ace Hasan Syadzily Deputy chairman of the House of Representatives Commission VIII, Secretary-General of the Indonesian Ministry of Social Affairs, Secretary-General of KPSI, Fentiny Nugroho Lecturer of Social Welfare at the University of Indonesia, LSPS representative, Head of Legal Bureau of the Indonesian Ministry of Social Affairs, Head of Organization and Staffing Bureau.

"The Social Workers Law is very important to be supported because the need for handling social problems that are so complex and many in Indonesia requires professional treatment, it is not enough to only handle partially and incidentally," explained Ace Hasan Syadzily Deputy chairman of Commission VIII DPR RI

Ace Hasan added, For this reason, highly professional human resources are needed, including social workers who do have competence in this field.

Meanwhile, on the same occasion the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Social Affairs, Hartono Laras said, "Ministry of Social Affairs represents the government is fully committed to supporting the Social Workers Act from the start".

It is important for everyone to understand this Social Workers Act not only from a dogmatic textual point of view but also its context.

"In the future the Ministry of Social Affairs will also implement TOT for the Ministry of Social Ministry's internal ranks who will be involved in the socialization of the Social Workers Law, so that they have the same understanding and misinformation will occur so that it creates a difference in understanding for all people who will be targeted for socialization," concluded the Secretary-General.

Present as participants in this activity were social workers, academics, social study program students, representatives from a number of UPT Badiklitpensos, structural and functional employees of the Ministry of Social eschelon work unit (UKE) 1. With a total of 200 participants, this activity will be held on November 20-22, 2019 at the Jakarta Media Hotel.