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Yogyakarta Women With Disabilities Working Together To Spread Anti-Corruption Messages

For the first time since Saya Perempuan Antikorupsi! (SPAK) Training of Trainers (ToT) was born over three years ago, a ToT was held specifically for preparing women with disabilities as agents of change with respect to anti-corruption. Forty women from 10 Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) in all five districts in Yogyakarta participated in the three-day training from 15–17 November 2017.

Yogyakarta was chosen as a pilot for this SPAK ToT focusing on persons with disabilities since there are very active SPAK agents (policewomen) from the previous ToT in that province, and also strong local DPOs. The idea is to build collaboration between the two groups of agents – besides the first batch of agents consisting of students and members of the the public – and hope that they work together during socialisation activities in the community.

The ToT was held as a collaborative activity between the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), DPOs SIGAB (Sasana Integrasi dan Advokasi Difabel) and SAPDA (Sentra Advokasi Perempuan Difabel dan Anak), Yogyakarta Provincial Police Department, and Australia Indonesia Partnership for Justice 2 (AIPJ2). 

“Corruption takes away other people’s rights, decreases the ability of government institutions to serve the community, and in the end will affect citizens’ access to public service facilities,” said Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X at the opening of the ToT on Wednesday, 15 November 2017 in Yogyakarta. “For people with disabilities, this means a greater risk of falling further into poverty, and more difficulties in demanding and accessing inclusive facilities. They are really harmed by corruption,” he added.  

KPK leadership Saut Situmorang, who also spoke at the opening of the training, believes that corruption can be eradicated if Indonesian women work together to educate their families and children on anti-corruption, starting in their very own homes. SPAK now has more than 1,000 agents in all 34 provinces and has reached over 1 million people. 

This training modified materials used in previous SPAK ToTs by adjusting the facilitation methods to meet accessibility standards. “We provided inputs to the Majo game and helped create a blind-friendly version of the list of answers in braille for this training, so that blind and low vision participants can try them out and give their feedback on the accessibility of the anti-corruption board games,” said Director of SAPDA, Nurul Saadah. 

Through materials given and five sets of games, the majority of participants can now understand the main differences between three practices – bribery, gratification and corruption.

These new SPAK agents will be spreading anti-corruption messages in their closest disability communities during the next three months. During the socialisation activity, they will collaborate with SPAK agents from the Yogyakarta policewomen, as one way to continue mutual sharing to spread anti-corruption messages. Furthermore, collaboration among DPOs will also be strengthened to further improve SPAK materials and games to be more user-friendly for the disabled community.  

“After the training, we plan to collaborate further with SIGAB in accompanying these new SPAK agents during their activities. We will document their activities, including findings on ways to perfect the tools and games so that they are wholly accessible and can be used by all SPAK agents with disabilities in the future,” Nurul added.  

The agents will gather again in February 2018 to review how they have put into practice anti-corruption principles in their daily lives. 

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