Medan is one of the big cities in Indonesia. As a big city Medan has problems. Now days the big issues about problems in Medan are education system, traffic jam, and also housing for the citizen. The education system always be the first issue, it’s because in Medan there are still have no good policy to maintain education system, we still can find many children on the street begging for some help and try to be entertain the people on their vehicles, public transportation with their song, and etc without being forbidden with the older people, or law enforcement which allows them working like that because in Medan those older people usually ask for money from they work. So it’s the problem. They are still a child and have to study at school and they are not supposed to get that action from older people. Even though they choose to work but they may say that working is hard to do and it is not fun, because they always get pressure from the older gang on the street. Children who are working wants to go to school but the economy of their family makes them stay on street. Second issue is traffic jam, the traffic jam in Medan is not like in Jakarta with many cars and vehicles but in Medan most of the traffic jam is because undisciplined from the public transportation. The drivers of public transportation always stop in everywhere they want without aware with the sign which they allow to stop or not, it makes the drivers will have their own space in the side of street and make a line then waiting for the people. The line that public transportation make is not just one line but more than one, it can be three lines so it causes the traffic jam because of those public transportation which waiting for the people. Then housing of the citizen also causes the problem, because the citizen who doesn't have a house make their house in some areas that is not supposed to be life there, like in the river bank, street and etc. Then after they built they house, they have their business in their house of close to their house such as: selling soft drink and snacks, retail service for phone and etc. So it’s a problem because from what they do is they make the dirty environment and not health for the environment and another is it may cause traffic jam too because of the housing of citizen .
Those problem should get the attention and it can be helped by the technology. For the education system for the children who has been working on the street they should have mentoring from the institutional or from the volunteering program. In Medan there is a volunteering program which comes from Germany that for young generation who does not go to school or join the army they should go to development country for volunteering and give the education or skill that they have for the children WHO are not in school in several years. So this cooperation for volunteering will help with the education system for the children who are working on the street. Then for the technology how to solve the traffic jam problem and to make the drivers of public transportation more discipline is by make a sign that how long they can waiting for the passenger by using a timer in the side of street which the drivers always wait for the people. So with the timer they will know the time that they’ve been waiting and they have to go if they have been waiting too long so that it would be cost traffic jam because of too many public transportation, and they can maintain their time. And the last for the housing problem it should get solve by providing the special place that for they house and have their own business which can be helpful for them and also it will have their own income from it.
Very good job.
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