Towards an Inclusive Social Welfare Institution for Disabilities: The Case of Indonesia

Abstract

People with disabilities are vulnerable to experience exclusion and discrimination in society. Likewise in Indonesia, a common condition for people with disabilities is the low level of participation in various sectors, such as the economy, education, healthcare, and public infrastructure. However, Indonesia has committed and started efforts to improve the equality of people with disabilities’ access. One institution that plays an important role in this regard is the social welfare institution. On a related note, this study discusses the dynamic of the social welfare institution’s roles in Indonesia in providing welfare for people with disabilities. Furthermore, the roles are explored based on the current context of society, which over the last few years, has been changing rapidly due to technological advancements, information acceleration, and big data utilization. This study argues building an inclusive social welfare institution is fundamental to fulfill the people with disabilities’ welfare. This study uses a qualitative approach with literature review and secondary data analysis as data collection methods.

Pro Disability Policy in Local Governments: Lessons from the Central Lampung Regency

“…Because the issue of disability is an issue that will always be contextual Pro Disability Policy in Local Governments … | 167 and actual. A pessimistic perspective will not produce anything, except for conditions of vulnerability for persons with disabilities (Huripah, 2020).…”

“…The social construction paradigm provides the right criticism to reinterpret disability as something that is much more complex, not just an individual's biological condition, but there are external factors outside of people with disabilities, such as the social environment that contributes as a factor that complicates the situation of people with disabilities (Halimatussadiah et al, 2017). Thus, disability is the result of the interaction of limitations experienced by a person with his/her environment, not only physically or mentally, but is a multi-dimensional phenomenon that is intertwined with bodily functions, limited activity, barriers to participation and environmental factors (Huripah, 2020).…”

Disability-Inclusive Efforts Reflected in Development Programs: A Review of Literature and Recommendations for Scaling UP

“…Seven articles have identified various challenges that are persistently causing Indonesia to be behind the goal of "leaving no one behind". (Perdamenta, 2017) Inclusive Education Qualitative Approach (Mutia et al, 2021) Social Services Juridical-empirical Legal Studies (Sulastyawati, 2020) Social Inclusion Qualitative Approach (Huripah, 2020) Social Welfare Qualitative Approach…”

“…Furthermore, other studies emphasize that in Indonesia one of the many barriers to empowering Persons with disabilities is the lacking and inaccurate database regarding disabilities in the country, and limited budget and human resources are mainly affecting the social and development programs implementation (Huripah, 2020;Mutia et al, 2021). Another issue depicted in the studies reviewed is the absence of children with special education needs' participation in disaster risk reduction education research, evaluation, and school programs.…”

The Effectiveness of Social Services in Handling Beggars as Social Welfare Service Needers in South Tangerang City

“…Parallel to poverty reduction efforts, the government is also responsible for overcoming Social Welfare Service Needers (PPKS). These efforts need to be conducted side by side to accelerate the improvement of social welfare (Darmawan et al, 2022;Dini & Fauzan, 2020;Huripah, 2020;Syahza et al, 2020). One of the PPKS issues is beggars.…”