Setelah mempertahankan predikat Kota Layak Anak Utama 6 kali berturut-turut dan meraih nilai tertinggi di Indonesia pada Penghargaan Kabupaten/Kota Layak Anak Tahun 2023 oleh Kementerian PPPA, Kota Surabaya siap naik kelas dengan menjadi Kota Layak Anak Paripurna Pertama di Indonesia.
Berdasarkan Peraturan Menteri Pemberdayaan Perempuan dan Perlindungan Anak Nomor 12 Tahun 2022 tentang Penyelenggaraan Kabupaten/Kota Layak Anak, Kota Layak Anak adalah kota dengan sistem pembangunan yang menjamin pemenuhan hak anak dan perlindungan khusus anak yang dilakukan secara terencana, menyeluruh, dan berkelanjutan.
Dalam melaksanakan setiap klaster Kota Layak Anak tersebut, Pemerintah Kota Surabaya selalu melibatkan anak-anak di Kota Surabaya. Disamping itu, Pemerintah Kota terus berupaya untuk meningkatkan partisipasi anak dalam pembangunan. Salah satunya dengan memberikan hak akses untuk anak-anak agar dapat memberikan saran dan masukannya melalui musrenbang kelurahan, musrenbang kecamatan dan musrenbang kota. Yang tak kalah istimewa, telah dibentuk Forum Anak Kota Surabaya, Forum Anak Kecamatan di 31 Kecamatan serta Forum Anak Kelurahan di 153 Kelurahan di Kota Surabaya.
Pada tahun 2023, Forum Anak Surabaya mencetak beberapa prestasi di tingkat Jawa Timur bahkan Nasional. Diantaranya adalah, Forum Anak Surabaya menjadi Forum Anak Terbaik di Jawa Timur pada Atmaja Award 2023 serta meraih Media Sosial terbaik Daffa Award 2023 yang merupakan ajang penghargaan untuk Forum Anak se-Indonesia yang diselenggarakan oleh Kementerian PPPA.
Yang pasti, Forum Anak Surabaya, Kecamatan dan Kelurahan senantiasa mendukung penuh pelaksanaan Kota Layak Anak di Kota Surabaya agar bisa naik kelas menjadi Kota Layak Anak Paripurna di Tahun 2024.
Surabaya City Government through the Board of Regional Planning and Research
Development (Bappedalitbang) is once again holding the 2024 Surabaya Innovation
Competition (Inovboyo).
The Head of the Board of Regional Planning and Research Development, Irvan
Wahyudrajad, said that this competition aimed to encourage all levels of society as well
as Local Government Department (Perangkat Daerah) in Surabaya to contribute their
ideas of innovations for the advancement of the city. Bappedalitbang initiates this
competition at the first place and organizes it every year to create an atmosphere
encouraging people in Surabaya to think in creative ways and in the long term it is
expected that innovation could be a culture for the city and a shared character of the
society. Therefore, innovation is going to be an integral part of the city’s development and
eventually, Surabaya will escalate as a barometer of innovation in Indonesia.
Therefore, Irvan gave the message and invited the entire community and local
government working units to actively participate in this innovation battle since it could
create an exceptional impact for Surabaya as well as for Indonesia. "Innovation is not
only about a new application, innovation can be concrete solutions to problems that are
now arising in society. Innovation can be a product, a service, a business model or
strategy that allows the city’s issues to be solved better and faster. It doesn't have to be
an application because there are too many applications already," said Irvan, on Saturday
(20/1/2023).
The 2024 Inovboyo competition consists of three categories. The first is technological
innovation based on websites, mobile apps, big data, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial
Intelligence (AI), and Virtual Reality (VR). Second, innovation and invention in the
economic sector. While the third category is non-economic technological innovation and
invention.
Irvan further elaborated that there were some criteria for the innovations that could be
registered for the 2024 Inovboyo competition. Primarily, the innovations have to introduce
novelties in all or some elements. Apart from that, the innovations have to provide benefits
to the city and society. Additionally, the innovations must not lead to inappropriate
impositions or restrictions in the society as well as law violations.
"The innovations also have to be relevant to the present concerns of Surabaya City
Government and must be replicable," explained Irvan.
He continued that the Mayor of Surabaya, Eri Cahyadi, wanted the new innovations could
relate and be applied to the recent prioritized programs of the City Government,
specifically, environmental management, public street lighting system, education, flood
management and digitalization.
Regarding the procedure of the 2024 Inovboyo competition, once the innovations are
submitted, they will be selected by a team of judges from academics from Universities,
the East Java Provincial Government, and the Indonesian Ministry of Home Affairs.
Afterwards, 6 (six) winners of the best innovations will be selected and will receive
coaching money, trophies and certificates from the Surabaya City Mayor.
For Surabaya populaces who would like to participate in contributing their innovations for
the City’s development, please kindly register via the website merdeka.surabaya.go.id
starting from January, 2024. Inovboyo previously broke the national record as the most
participants in innovation competitions and therefore, was listed in the Museum of
Indonesian Records (MURI) in 2022.
"Bappedalitbang encourages and accommodates all innovations, both external and
internal," Irvan concluded.
Surabaya City Government has been moving quickly to handle polio and has successfully
carried out the immunization simultaneously on January 15, 2024. This sub-PIN Polio
activity was held in accordance to the Circular Letter from the Minister of Health of the
Republic of Indonesia Number IM.02.03/Menkes/1051/2023 dated 29 December 2023
concerning the Implementation of Sub-PIN in the context of Handling the Polio Outbreak
cVDPV2. The sub-PIN Polio activity will be carried out in 2 rounds. The first round is now
being conducted, specifically on January 15-21, 2024 while the second round will be
administered on February 19-25, 2024.
On the other hand, aspiring that the immunization was conducted as soon as possible
and met the target, the Mayor of Surabaya, Eri Cahyadi, ordered the polio immunization
was carried out within one day in several places all at once, precisely in integrated service post (posyandu), neighborhood health centers (puskesmas), early childhood education
centers (PAUD), kindergartens and elementary schools.
"The spread of the virus can have fatal consequences, cause paralysis and cannot be
cured. Therefore, it is imperative that the immunization be conducted within a day", said
the Mayor after giving a briefing at Graha Sawunggaling, Tuesday (9/1/2024).
The Head of Health Department, Nanik Sukristina, stated that polio immunization is
carried out by providing novel Oral Polio Vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) to all children in
Surabaya with the age range of 0-7 years regardless of their previous immunization
status. The target is all children within that age range in the city, which is 329,616
children. This number is divided into two groups, specifically school and non-school
children. The number of non-school children is 122,947 children while the number of
school children reaches 62,70% of the targeted number, which is 206,669 children.
Cak Eri has found a success formula to meet the targeted number of children being
immunized. The Mayor asked Nanik to monitor the sub-PIN Polio activity by utilizing the
application. This application contains all the names and addresses of the infants and
children up to 7 years old in Surabaya. After the immunization, the names of the children
are marked to separate the children who have been immunized and those who have not.
By this application, the head of sub-district (Camat) and the head of urban village (Lurah)
can monitor which ones who have not been immunized in their respective areas. Hence,
they can immediately bring those children to the nearest neighborhood halls to receive
polio vaccine drops. This formula has been proven successful because within 3 days of
the implementation of sub-PIN Polio activity, the fulfilment rate has reached 94,02
percent.
Polio is a virus that is contagious and attacks the nervous system, causing permanent
paralysis of the muscles in the body's limbs. Polio virus can be transmitted through food
or drink contaminated by feces from children infected with the Polio virus. The Polio virus
incubation period is between 3-6 days and afterwards, paralysis occurs within 7-21 days.
Clinical symptoms that may arise include fever, fatigue, headache, vomiting, stiffness in
the neck, as well as pain in the limbs. In addition to immunization, clean and healthy living behavior (PHBS) is a crucial key in preventing the spread of the polio virus throughout the society. This is due to the fact that the way the polio virus is transmitted is through feces or human waste.
In Surabaya, as ordered by the Mayor, the first round was administered simultaneously
on January 15, 2024 and the second round will be organized on February 15, 2024. The
Board of Regional Planning and Research Development (Bappedalitbang) Surabaya
has contributed actively during the first round of sub-PIN Polio activity by spreading the
awareness of the importance of polio immunization and participating directly in the
showground to monitor as well as to perform outreach in areas that have not yet reached
the 100 percent target.