JAKARTA, June 5: Financial difficulties are pushing more Indonesian families to give up their children to childcare institutions, a new report says.

The report released by charity Save the Children along with Unicef and the Indonesian government said up to half a million children are in care institutions across the country, but only six per cent are orphans.

“It was clear from the research that the great majority of these children were neither parentless nor were they abandoned by their families,” the report said.

“Instead they were placed in the institutions by their own families primarily as a result of their economic situation and mostly in order to secure their education.”—Reuters