Pageu Gampong: Risk Mitigation in Preventing Children Violence in North Aceh Regency

Abstract

The series of incidents of violence against children become a social fact that surrounds our lives. It appears in many forms, namely: physical violence, sexual violence, psychic violence, and social violence. The government has made various efforts to minimize cases of violence against children. However, a structural approach is not enough, it must be accompanied by a cultural approach. This article discusses how the cultural approach, in this case strengthening the pageu gampong system, can be used as a mitigation of the risk of violence against children. This study was conducted in North Aceh Regency using a qualitative approach. Data were collected using observation techniques, interviews, and literature studies. Socialization of the importance of the existence of the pageu gampong system must be carried out to all elements of society to raise collective consciousness in protecting the village from the influence of negative things. Efforts to reactivate the pageu gampong system encourage the formation of a community order that advises each other in kindness, takes care of each other community members, helps each other in terms of kindness, supervises each other suspicious things in the village environment, and can resolve disputes in the community indigenously.