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The awareness of sex education in Indonesia still weak. This concern can seen by the increasing of sexual abuse cases that occurred in the last 3 years. 70 cases in 2017, 149 cases in 2018, and till July of 2019 there were 78 cases of sexual abuse in children. The causes were the lack of control from adult, and sex education still considered as a taboo. This paper would like to analyze parents perspective about sex education and school efforts to implement sex education in Budi Mulia Dua Sedayu Kindergarten. The research uses the qualitative approach with indepth interview in examining data with the parents and teachers, observation, also the literature review. The result in this study reveals following: firstly, parents think that sex education is an important thing as preventive act to sexual abuse. Secondly, school has did the program with the explanation and active act in school. However, in the reality there are some problems that occurred like toilets that not divided by the gender, and adult that changes the child-s clothes on the open space. The implication of this study is to bring school and parents to know and develop more about their awareness about sex education.