Whitewash small studio with small terrace looks usual, clean yards same with the next two houses. At a glance, there is nothing different with another resident. But who knows, behind the house, a woman lived with physical disability. It is not easy to find her house. This newspaper deliberately visits to see her activities who […]
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Jakarta – The DPR RI said that the position auction policy mandated by the Regulation of the Minister for Empowerment of State Apparatus and Bureaucratic Reform concerning Procedures for Openly Filling High Leadership Positions in Government Agencies* is illegal and has many weaknesses. The DPR is also planning to immediately revise these regulations. However, PATTIRO suspects
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Aimas-Yayasan PATTIRO invites stakeholders, including health sector to discuss the government’s commitment in fulfilling the rights of disabilities in Sorong. Community health center will become a model target for activities to fight the right of disabilities. Yayasan PATTIRO surveyed in 3 communities health center, namely Puskesmas Aimas, Mayamuk, and Mariat, the result will see the
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CSO OGP Indonesia Press Release | 2015 Open Government Partnership Summit in Mexico Mexico City – The Minister of National Development Planning Sofyan Djalil stated that it is important for Indonesian Government to acknowledge the partnership with civil society as partnership is one of many other Open Government Partnership (OGP) principles. “It is important to build
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By: Nurjanah* Law Number 4 Year 1997 on Disabled Persons is no longer relevant to be used. Not only in the sociological context, but also in juridical and philosophical context, this regulation should be revised adjusting the principals of Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. To change the civil society stigma and their
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JAKARTA — Civil society organizations see that during the first year of Joko Widodo-Jusuf Kalla tenure the commitment to implement the Open Government Partnership (OGP) tends to decline. Though Indonesia is one of OGP initiators, until this very moment, the Government is yet to create a clear policy to concretely carry out the OGP initiative.
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Jakarta – PATTIRO finds out that there are still many district governments who are yet to implement the Village Law mandate to disburse at least 80% of village funds at the second stage of its disbursement in last August. Even in the early October, in eastern Indonesia, there are many villages who received only 60% of
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Since 2011 until 2013, maternal mortality rate (MMR) in Jeneponto District had fluctuated. The MMR in 2011 was not more than 61 deaths per 100.000 births which is pretty good. However, the rate increased almost three times to 169 deaths in 2012. Nevertheless, according to the data published by Jeneponto Health Department, the MMR was
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The supports PATTIRO provided to the difable friends in West Lombok District until October 2015 has been running for one semester. During this period of time, there is an important change that should be highlighted; it is the establishment of a difable activist community named Center of Difable Potential Development (PPPD) in Labuapi Sub-district on
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Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) in Semarang District continues to increase every year. The data released by Semarang District Health Department put the 2014 MMR at 144 deaths per 100,000 births. Instead of declining, the Health Department’s data shows that 2015 first semester MMR increased to 147 deaths per 100,000 births. This situation indicates that the
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To improve the quality of health care service provided by the Community Health Center, Center for Regional Information and Studies (PATTIRO) together with PATTIRO Surakarta and Surakarta Health Department launch an SMS Gateway based application named SMS PANDAN (Health Complaint Service Center). This SMS-based application is created to ease the people of Surakarta in delivering
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Even though the Indonesian Government has ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Law since 2011, until now, the implementation of this regulation is still far from what we have expected all this time. As in Sorong District, West Papua, there are still many rights of the disabilities the government has not
