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Disabled people in West Lombok District Start Using BPJS Health Cards

Oleh Didik Purwondanu* After obtaining a Social Security Administering Body (BPJS) Health membership card last April, 160 disabled people in West Lombok Regency, West Nusa Tenggara Province are now starting to use the magic card to obtain free treatment. Marwiyah is one of them. The resident of Bagek Polak Village looked enthusiastic when telling about

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FOINI: Improve Transparency Infrastructure and Data Governance to Fulfill the Right to Know

Since Law Number 14 of 2008 was passed and implemented in 2010, the State has guaranteed the Indonesian people’s right to obtain information. However, even though the law has been implemented for six years, the fulfillment of the public’s right to know is still hampered by several factors. Right on the occasion of World Right

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PATTIRO Holds Local Governance Forum to Discuss the Issue of Village-Owned Enterprises

By Ahmad Romdoni* PATTIRO organized the Local Governance Forum[1] (LGF) on Guarding the Implementation of the Village Law Series on Wednesday, 7 September 2016 in Jakarta with the theme “Strengthening Village-Owned Enterprises (BUM Desa) to Strengthen the Rural Economy”. Present at the meeting was the village research team from PATTIRO, activists of various civil society

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Lessons Learned | The Success of Difable Activists in Increasing Access for Difables and the Poor of Lombok Barat to Participate in BPJS

Up to the present day, the government of Indonesia does not have accurate data on the number and characteristics of persons with difabilities in the country. Based on data from the Ministry of Social Affairs, in 2011, of approximately 240 million people in Indonesia, 3.11% or 7.4 million of them are categorized as difables. Meanwhile,

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PATTIRO Holds Discussion with the Experts to Find Solutions to Overcome Problems of Indigenous Villages in Indonesia

By: Karina Sari* PATTIRO held a meeting with experts to discuss PATTIRO’s findings on the issue of indigenous villages and find solutions to overcome those problems, on Tuesday, 6 September 2016, in Jakarta. Attending the meeting were the PATTIRO village research team village and several experts on indigenous villages such as Indonesia University Sociology Professor

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The Impact of Partial Deferral of Transfer of the 2016 General Allocation Grant to Public Service in Various Areas

By: Maya Rostanty* The government has recently published Minister of Finance Regulation (PMK) Number 125/PMK.07/2016 on the Partial Deferral of Transfer of the General Allocation Grant (DAU) of the 2016 Fiscal Year. The PMK was signed on 16 August 2016 by the Minister of Finance. Based on the PMK, the government will defer the grant

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Reappointment of Information Commission Members without Re-Selection, FOINI Coalition Proposes Judicial Review of Article 33 of the KIP Law

In the period April – December 2015, there were 14 Provincial Information Commissions (KI Provinces) that had entered the second period of selection, namely: Central Kalimantan, West Nusa Tenggara, DKI Jakarta, North Sulawesi, East Kalimantan, Bali, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, North Sumatra , Central Sulawesi, Riau, DI Yogyakarta, Gorontalo, South Sulawesi, West Java and South Sumatra.

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West Lombok’s Disabled Community is Increasingly Empowered

Oleh Riska Hasan Amelia* Disabled organizations in West Lombok Regency, West Nusa Tenggara Province cannot be underestimated. The movement carried out by the Lingsar Bermobil Disabled Group (KDLB) and the Labuapi Center for Disabled Potential Development (P3D) in West Lombok did not stop at organizing at sub-district nodes. In fact, in March and June 2016,

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Three Homework that the New PDTT Village Minister Must Complete

Last Wednesday, July 27 2016, President Joko Widodo carried out another ministerial reshuffle in the Working Cabinet. One of the new names that appeared in the second ministerial reshuffle was Eko Putro Sanjoyo, who now serves as Minister of Villages, Development of Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration, replacing Marwan Jafar. PATTIRO Executive Director Sad Dian Utomo

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