Mahfud MD Meets Women's Disabled People, Take Note Of The Aspirations About The Lack Of Government Assistance

Vice President Mahfud MD met representatives from organizations, activists and women with disabilities at the Teuku Umar 9 Command Post, Central Jakarta, Thursday (14/12/2023). ANTARA/Fianda Sjofjan Rassat

JAKARTA - Vice Presidential Candidate number 3 Mahfud MD met representatives from organizations, activists, and women's people at the Teuku Umar 9 Command Post, Central Jakarta.

During the meeting, representatives of the disabled conveyed several aspirations and difficulties faced in their daily lives as well as the lack of assistance from the government to them.

"This should also be our common concern, especially for these accesses, we will reorganize and inventory the problem," Mahfud said as quoted by ANTARA, Thursday, December 14.

Mahfud also heard directly from disabled activists that disability cannot be generalized, each of which has characteristics that require different attention.

The former Constitutional Justice also understood that the government's policy for persons with disabilities could not be made uniform.

"Disability is not just any disability, so a uniform policy cannot be made, but for example, if there are 6,000 (people) who have not had other types of disabilities," he said.

Mahfud said the government has regulated that every job belonging to the government and the private sector provides quotas for people with disabilities, although sometimes there are still shortcomings. However, Mahfud emphasized that this must be handled and reorganized immediately.

"According to the complaints that I noted earlier, the government's attention needs to be improved. Our Basic Law (UUD) states that every citizen, in the sense that everyone, if it means human rights, so if people are healthy or unhealthy, it is the responsibility of the state to guarantee their rights," said Mahfud.

Previously, the pair duet Mahfud, Ganjar Pranowo, said the same thing in the first presidential candidate Debate on Tuesday (12/12).

Ganjar said vulnerable groups must be involved in making decisions to improve the quality of public services and create fair public services.

He said he always involved groups of vulnerable women, people with disabilities, the elderly, children, parents, and other vulnerable groups in the deliberation of development plans (musrenbang).

"Why? So that decision makers are aware. They (leaders) care how they (weak people) feel," said Ganjar.

According to him, the involvement of vulnerable groups and decision-making is very important in development, so that the interests of all parties can be accommodated and there will be no rejection in the future.

"Equality in development planning is what we hope can represent what they expect. So, physically, if they wake up, they understand which one will use, so that there are no more protests," explained Ganjar.