Jakarta, March 27 -- The Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) has asked rest area managers to pay attention to the need for child-friendly corners, especially to respond to the surge in homecoming travel during this year's Eid al-Fitr holiday period.

At an online press conference on Thursday, KPAI member Aris Adi Leksono said that the commission directly inspected several rest areas on the Cikopo-Palimanan toll road on Wednesday and found that facilities for vulnerable groups, including children and women, were lacking.

"In several rest areas, though we had repeatedly appealed, they do not provide child-friendly corners that have games, play equipment that are helpful when children are bored from being in vehicles too long," he...