Disabled yet to be accommodate

Disabled yet to be accommodate

JAKARTA: The number of disabled people in Greater Jakarta has
reached over 9,000 in the past two years, an official says.

Head of the social rehabilitation division of the City Mental
and Spiritual Development, Social Welfare Agency Jadium Sebayang,
said his office recorded 9,607 disabled people in 2004, not
including 3,482 people with mental health problems.

He said the administration was aiming to collect more accurate
data on the number of disabled people who needed support to
participate more fully in the community.

"The public are yet to accept that people with disabilities
are as capable of working as others. This is our main obstacle in
trying to empower them as members of the workforce," he said.

Law No. 4/1987 on people with disabilities stipulates that
disabled people must make up at least one percent of a company's
total employees. -- JP