Towards the Realisation of the Ideal cbr; Context and Reality in Low per-Capita Income Rural Area of Flores Island, Indonesia
Chapter 3The Pattern of Rehabilitation Support in Low per-capita Income Rural Area of Flores Island of Indonesia
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Chapter 3The Pattern of Rehabilitation Support in Low per-capita Income Rural Area of Flores Island of Indonesia3.1The Initial Data SetThe initial information set of all nine mediators of SLF in Flores Island of Indonesia was drawn from SLF data base. The variables are mainly statistical in nature, presenting the list of children in terms of name, case number, sex (male/female), type of impairment, type of assistance, year of birth, date of first support and date of last support. Table 2 shows this initial data set of the nine mediators in Flores Island of Indonesia. Aimed at determining links between child characteristics and rehabilitation offered. The data set shows some interesting points which will be discussed shortly. There is an over representation of males in the data set. Comparing this data set with the statistical data of disability in Indonesia (2000 National Survey) as presented in table 4, it appear that there is a similar trend nationally, both in urban and rural areas. In rural area there were 55.3% males with disabilities as compared to only 44.7% females. From SLF mediators n Flores, the data set shows 61% males with disabilities and only 31% females with disabilities of age 11 -15 years old. Table 4 Percentage of Disabled Persons by Sex (2000 National Survey)
Source: Susenas 1998 and 2000, BPS-Statistics Indonesia David Werner (1999: A12) also confirmed that many studies have shown that more boys are disabled than girls. He described that despite the argument that this can be because boys are more exposed to physical stress and danger, or due to genetic factors, there are other possible reasons for this reality. The first one, he said, is because more of the boys than the girls with disabilities are taken to the center and therefore their disabilities are recorded. The second possible reason is girls with disabilities often are not cared for as well as boys with disabilities and thus there are more of the girls who died when they are babies or small children. This second reason is especially relevant and contextual due to the patriarchal system in most of society in Indonesia including in rural Flores. Table 5 Initial data set of the nine mediators of Liliane Foundation in Flores Island of Indonesia
Source: Compilation from SLF database The second trend in the data set is that 5 out of the 9 mediators focus on learning impairments, thus the percentage of learning impairment cases in the data set is a bias. Looking carefully into the data, there is a lack of available information in the organisation regarding the actual prevalence of children from each type of disability as the data is drawn from existing mediators who each has the tendency of focussing on specific type of impairment. The data shows trend of a high percentage of specific type of impairment being assisted by each mediator. In terms of type of assistance provided by the mediators, education is the highest, followed with (para) medical. This is a reflection of shared vision of the needs of children in general (education) and children with disability in specific ((para) medical). The reality of the condition of physical infrastructure and environment in villages of Flores with muddy and rocky mountainous road is one of the possible reasons for low percentage of wheelchair and tricycle assistance. The other possible reason is the cost and availability of wheelchair and tricycle which can only be obtained from outside of the island, mostly from Java Island. The same reason applies for sensoring and orthopedical appliances which in this data set also low in percentage. Income generating and vocational training, as two familiar type of assistance mostly done through CBR approach, are also very low in percentage in this data set. Further study is needed to research on the reason behind this trend. More ethnographic qualitative research is needed to find out more about the needs of children in Flores Island along with more research of the prevalence of disability in the area and available local resources and the level of acceptance of community towards persons with different type of impairment. Directory: pub pub -> Project Scoring Template Pre-Construction Phase New Core/Branch Campus Projects pub -> Acm word Template for sig site pub -> The german unification, 1815-1870 pub -> Baltic Olympiads in Informatics: Challenges for Training Together pub -> Preparation of Papers for ieee transactions on medical imaging pub -> Forthcoming meetings and conferences pub -> Asilomar Conference on Circuits, Systems & Computers, Pacific Grove, ca, November 1978, pp. 55 58 pub -> Forthcoming meetings and conferences pub -> Harmonised compatibility and sharing conditions for video pmse in the 7 9 ghz frequency band, taking into account radar use Download 433.67 Kb. Share with your friends:
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