The Social Affairs Ministry is striving to improve training for people with disabilities to widen their access to job opportunities or employment.
“We have conducted training four times for them to access employment,” Social Affairs Minister Tri Rismaharini stated here on Wednesday.
Rismaharini remarked that the effort to expand training for persons with disabilities is undertaken along with the endeavor to encourage them to become entrepreneurs.
Meanwhile, the minister noted that Indonesia has in place Law No. 8 of 2016 that stipulates the minimal quota for people with disabilities in the total percentage of employees of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs/BUMN) and state apparatus (ASN) as well as private firms.
The percentage of employees with disabilities is allocated at no less than two percent in SOEs and state institutions and at least one percent in private companies.
According to Rismaharini, the realization of employment of disabled persons has been going well, though some problems still exist in private companies.
Hence, the ministry keeps pushing for achieving the Incheon Strategy goals not only for poverty reduction but also job creation and social protection for disabled persons.
Through several programs, the Social Ministry collaborates with other ministries in providing vocational training to people with disabilities as well as with various companies to distribute manpower.
The ministry continues to motivate disabled people to become entrepreneurs, so they can live independently and exit the poverty line.
One of the forms of assistance distributed by the ministry is three-wheeled motorcycles that can be used to trade around. These three-wheeled motorcycles are also assembled by persons with disabilities, who are paid by the ministry as a form of empowerment.
The ministry upholds the concept of “from disability, by disability, and for disability” to empower them in every aspect.
In facilitating the entrepreneurship program, the ministry also hands over business capital assistance to persons with disabilities with limited mobility. The capital assistance, among others, aims to establish a grocery, handphone credit, or sewing stall, and other businesses, which follow each interest and skill.
Source: Antara News