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  • 2005
    • Indonesia
    • Fiji
    • Sri Lanka/Maldives
    • Mongolia
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    • Myanmar
    • Viet Nam
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    • Vanuatu
  • 2004
  • 2003
  • 2002
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Mission to Indonesia

An APCD Mission was dispatched to Indonesia from 7-11 September 2005 to confirm the Department of Social Rehabilitation and Services, Ministry of Social Affairs as APCD's Government Focal Point Organization.

The "Accessibility Seminar" on 8 September was the first cooperative activity with the Department with former APCD training participants, Department officials and representatives of relevant organizations attending. This seminar served as a follow-up for 12 former Indonesian participants. They could share their outcomes with each other concerned and facilitated their networking and collaboration. Outstanding post-training activities were presented by representatives of 11 former participants; 7 participants from the Non-handicapping Environment Training, 3 participants from the Web-based Networking Training, and 1 participant from Information and Communication Technology for Visually Impaired Persons. Recognizing that former participants have been active in facilitating "access" in both the built-environment and ICT, APCD appreciated a proposal for a national training workshop to be organized by the former participants.

In Jakarta, the Mission visited 16 NGOs which belong to the Indonesia Disabled People's Association and exchanged views on possible future cooperation. It was quite impressive to see that DPI-Indonesia has been promoting not only the national policy/legislation on disability but also community-based income generation for PWD.

The Mission visited several Indonesian NGOs and identified excellent activities to support PWD with a view to PWD's effective participation and empowerment, community involvement, and collaboration with civil society. One of these NGO is Mitra Netra Foundation in Jakarta, which has supported the education and employment of VIP since 1991 through effective resource mobilization and collaboration with the private sector. They have contributed greatly to the Foundation's activities. Another remarkable NGO is the Community-based Rehabilitation Development Training Center (CBR-DTC) in Solo City. CBR-DTC has been famous for their training of "facilitators" for CBR and other community development projects, and professionally caters to the needs of local and international NGO and provides tailor-made training courses.

APCD anticipates these Indonesian organizations will become Associate members of APCD.