Makassar, S Sulawesi – Social Affairs Minister Tri Rismaharini underscored the need for local governments to synergize with various parties, consisting of the community, in order to make sure accuracy in the collection of data on the requirements of handicapped individuals.
” Information is a crucial thing, but it is hard to get the information. For this reason, we require to collaborate with the neighborhood to get the data,” she said at the Panel Discuss II: Partnership for Special Needs Inclusion and Empowerment and Way Forward of the ASEAN High-Level Forum on Enabling Disability-Inclusive Development and Partnership Beyond 2025 here on Wednesday.
In this way, the main federal government will have the ability to learn about the conditions of individuals with disabilities and their qualities. For this reason, the main government, especially the Ministry of Social Affairs, can particularly fulfill their requirements.
With the integrated social welfare data (DTKS), which was verified in 2022, the Indonesian federal government supplied complimentary food for disabled individuals that live alone and do not have a family.
In addition, with the existence of the information, people with specials needs are familiarized with excellent practices to become entrepreneurs and are used aids.
Disabled individuals, who become entrepreneurs, are also consisted of in the National Economic Heroes (PENA) Program and given training to develop and market micro, little, and medium enterprise (MSME) products online every Saturday and Sunday.
The minister highlighted that the federal government ought to support individuals with impairments by supplying devices to support their lives and to make them independent in spite of a great deal of money being required for it.
” What is essential is motivation to make them trust themselves and to make their lives much better,” Rismaharini worried.
Some 13 nations, comprising nine ASEAN member countries, Timor-Leste as an observer, and 3 ASEAN partners, specifically the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, attended the ASEAN High-Level Forum on Disability-Inclusive Development and Partnership Beyond2025
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