Social Welfare Training Center Prepares Basic Training Module for People with Visual Impairments

BANDUNG (February 21, 2020) - In accordance with the mandate of Law No. 8 of 2016 concerning Persons with Disabilities which requires the state to provide a minimum of 2 percent quota in the process of receiving Prospective Civil Servants (CPNS). Therefore, the Indonesian Ministry of Social Affairs (Social Ministry) as the proponent of this Act needs to prepare various policies to fulfill the mandate of this Act which is also wrongly provided by the Social Welfare Training Center (Kesos)

The Social Welfare Training Center is a work unit under the Ministry of Social Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia, which is one of the functions of organizing basic training (Latsar) for CPNS.

The Social Welfare Training Center sees the mandate of the Act which requires a minimum of 2 percent quota for CPNS

"Social Welfare Education and Training Center must be prepared to be the leading learning center in fulfilling the rights of trainees, one of them is through the provision of teaching materials for Disability Participants in the form of Modules, Reading Materials, and Teaching Aids" The Head of Social Welfare Education and Training Center, Mulia Jonie

Following up on these directives, on Friday, February 21, 2020, the Social Welfare Training Center coordinated with Abiyoso Braille Indonesian Literacy Center related to cooperation to improve (transfer letters) the Latsar CPNS module Gol II and Gol III for the Net Disability

On this occasion, the Education and Training Center was represented by the Head of Training Apparatus - Mr Dwi Dharmawan, Head of Cooperation and Development of Training and Training - Haryanto, Coordinator of Widyaiswara - Trinanto and Several Widyaiswara Supporting Latsar CPN materials.

This coordination meeting resulted in an agreement that the Education and Training Center and the BLBI would work together to continue to provide training modules, reading material, and training tools for people with disabilities. And as a first step, the provision of teaching materials for Latsar CPNS Gol II and Gol III for persons with disabilities. As well as BLBI's commitment in providing a budget to make improvements (over letters) from conventional modules to braille modules.