<![CDATA[This policy paper explains that the rampant cases of child abuse in boarding religious educational institutions reflect an iceberg phenomenon triggered by the structural pathology of feudalistic patron-client, where this condition is exacerbated by the policy gap in the Regulation of the Minister of Religious Affairs (PMA) Number 30 of 2020 which is still oriented towards administrative-formal input and the passive application of SIMBA PONTREN. This policy study aims to formulate structural-bureaucratic interventions through engineering licensing regulations to break the chain of silence while simultaneously aligning sectoral governance with the Social Transformation targets in the 2025–2029 RPJMN. Using a qualitative-transformative policy analysis methodology based on William N. Dunn's problem-structuring framework, this study executes a regulatory desk review method and triangulation of cross-sectoral secondary data from the Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI) and the Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (KemenPPPA). The analysis reveals a substantive legal lacuna and isolates the revised licensing regulation scenario as the most optimal, efficient, and technically feasible option compared to the status quo scenario or the establishment of a new external supervisory board. In conclusion, ending institutional impunity cannot be resolved through moral appeals, but rather requires the transformation of operational permits into a strong structural leverage instrument. Therefore, this policy paper recommends a targeted addendum to PMA Number 30 of 2020 by integrating the Institutional Child Safeguarding Policy obligation into the digital validation feature of the SIMBA PONTREN application through an automatic freezing sanction mechanism for Islamic Boarding School Statistics Numbers (NSP).]]>
