Semarang is one of a city that gets an award as a child-friendly city. A child-friendly city is a city that has recognized the existence of children’s rights, which implements it in policy, including in the development of its city. The availability of service facilities that consider children’s needs such as children’s playgrounds can contribute to the realization of a child-friendly city. Semarang has 33 active parks in 2014 and continues to grow by approximately 20 parks now, but not all parks provide children’s ground. The purpose of this study is to know that the availability of child-friendly parks can support Semarang as a Child-Friendly City. This study uses a qualitative descriptive approach, using a scoring analysis tool. The results of the analysis show that the availability of child-friendly parks is sufficient to influence the predicate of a child-friendly city because child-friendly parks are a representation of the attention and recognition of children’s rights.

AbstrakKota layak anak merupakan sebuah kota yang memperhatikan dan mengakui adanya hak anak, termasuk penyediaan sarana bermain anak. Sarana perkotaan yang dapat mencerminkan pengakuan terhadap hak anak salah satunya adalah taman. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui karakteristik taman Menteri Seopeno sebagai taman ramah anak di Kota Semarang. Taman ini diharapkan dapat menjadi acuan bagi pengembangan taman ramah anak dalam mewujudkan kota yang layak anak. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah kuantitatif dengan alat analisis skoring. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa taman Menteri Seopeno kurang ramah anak sehingga dibutuhkan beberapa pembenahan agar taman ini dapat menjadi salah satu sarana penunjang perwujudan kota layak anak di Semarang. AbstractThe child-friendly city is a city that gives attention to and recognizes the existence of children's rights, including the provision of children's play facilities. Public facilities that can reflect recognition of children's rights are parks. The purpose of this study is to find out the characteristic of Menteri Soepeno park as a child-friendly park in Semarang city. This park is expected to be a reference for the development of child-friendly parks in realizing a child-friendly city. The method used in this research is quantitative with scoring analysis. The result showed that Menteri Soepeno park was not child-friendly, some improvements were needed so this park could be one of facility that supports the realization of a child-friendly city in Semarang.