The Launch of the Disability Participatory Video Diaries - SAME: Spaces, Opportunities and Treatment for Persons with Disabilities

The ILO in collaboration with Kampung Halaman Foundation will launch two video diaries on disability on the rights to employment and public accessibility. The first of its kinds, the video diaries capture the plight and voices of persons with disabilities from their own perspectives.

Background


Decent work is the ILO's primary goal for everyone, including persons with disabilities. The ILO has worked for over 50 years to promote skills development and employment opportunities for people with disabilities based on the principles of equal opportunity, equal treatment, mainstreaming into vocational rehabilitation. Amongst others, since 2001, the ILO-Irish Aid Partnership Programme has worked in selected countries of South East Asia and East and Southern Africa to promote decent work and a better life for people with disabilities through enabling legal and policy environments, and by providing entrepreneurship development training and access to related services, with a particular emphasis on women with disabilities.

The programme has also promoted the inclusion of persons with disabilities alongside non-disabled people in programmes and services relating to employment promotion and economic and social development. In the current phase of the global Partnership Programme (2012-13), Promoting Rights and Opportunities for People with Disabilities in Employment through Legislation (PROPEL – Indonesia) will support the Government of Indonesia and other key stakeholders to address barriers to equal employment opportunities, and promote disability inclusion. Also, other projects in the office, mainly Better Work Indonesia, promote disability inclusion.

Disability issues still do not get enough attention in Indonesia; however, after the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) in November 2011, some more attention has been given to promoting rights of people with disabilities by the government, international organisations and DPOs.

ILO Jakarta in collaboration with Yayasan Kampung Halaman produced a video diary under the titled: SAMA – Ruang, Peluang dan Perlakuan bagi Penyandang Disabilitas. The SAMA video consists of two short videos on rights of persons with disabilities to employment and public facilities titled: “Job (Un)fair” and “Where is Our Access?” These video diaries were produced by the selected people with disabilities themselves after the series of trainings by Yayasan Kampung Halaman.

SAMA workshop involved 19 participants with vision, hearing and physical disabilities. The participants were required to create a participatory video campaign. In SAMA, 22 participants were invited to research their issues, writing, shooting, up to editing which were facilitated by mentors and facilitators from a variety of backgrounds ranging from researchers, community facilitators to film workers.

As a means for advocacy and for raising awareness, the SAMA videos are aimed to portray the lives of people with disabilities and their rights to employment and public facilities, problems and challenges that they are faced in terms of accessibility and access to information for decent work.

In conjunction with the commemoration of the International Day for Persons with Disabilities which is observed each year on 3 December, the ILO in collaboration with Yayasan Kampung Halaman and Cineplex XXI, the biggest cinema chain in Indonesia, are going to conduct a series of launches as the following:
  1. Jakarta – Empicentrum XXI on Thursday, 5 December 2013.
  2. Surabaya – Tunjungan XXI on Monday, 9 December 2013.
  3. Yogyakarta – Empire XXI on Wednesday, 11 December 2013.
  4. Semarang – Paragon XXI on Wednesday, 18 December 2013.
The launches of the SAMA video are in line with the this year’s theme of the International Day for Persons with Disabilities, “Break barriers, open doors: for an inclusive society for all”, provides an opportunity to further awareness of disability and the removal of all types of barriers - attitudinal, physical, social, economic and cultural - to realizing the full and equal participation of disabled persons in all spheres of society - education and training at the workplace and in politics, the arts and social activities in general.

Objectives

The main objectives of the launching of the video diary are:
  • to enhance awareness of the public at large, including the ILO’s constituents and mass media, in addressing the non-discrimination issues and barriers to equal employment opportunities for people with disabilities
  • to encourage better understanding of issues facing people with disabilities, and mobilize support for their quest for dignity, rights and full inclusion in society.

Expected outputs

With the launching of the video, it is expected that:
  1. Public at large, including the constituents and mass media, will have enhanced awareness about disability issues especially at the workplace;
  2. Public at large, including the constituents and mass media, will have understanding about the barriers faced by people with disabilities in accessing the decent employment and public facilities; and
  3. Public at large, including the constituents and mass media, will have consensus as well as commitment to address issues and barriers faced by people with disabilities in employment.

Launching Arrangement
 

Jakarta

The national launch of the SAMA videos will be conducted by the ILO and Yayasan Kampung Halaman on Thursday, 5 December, at Epicentrum XXI in Jakarta from 09.00 – 12.00. The SAMA video screening will be followed by an interactive discussion with all the participants involved in the production of the two videos. The participants will share their experiences producing the films by themselves. The launch will be concluded with an interactive discussion on rights of persons with disabilities to employment and public facilities, presenting representatives of government, enterprises and expert on city management.

Surabaya

The Surabaya launch will be conducted on Monday, 9 December, at Tunjungan XXI, from 09.00 – 12.00. The launch is conducted in collaboration with SmartFM Network of Surabaya, a leading radio station in Surabaya. The screening of the SAMA videos will be followed by a radio broadcast event in which the interactive discussion will be live recorded before the invitees. The discussion will raise issues related to the rights of persons with disabilities to employment and public facilities.

Yogyakarta

The Yogyakarta launch of the SAMA video will be conducted in conjunction with the Yogyakarta Documentary Film Festival. This year’s theme of the Festival is “Kota untuk Manusia (A City for Humans), raising issues related to the importance of full of participation and engagement of all human beings, including persons disabilities, in the society. The launch will be conducted, in collaboration with Youth Coop, a youth cooperative under Yayasan Kampung Halaman, on Wednesday, 11 December, at Empire XXI from 09.00 – 12.00. The launch will also be followed by an interactive discussion on disability related issues with relevant resource persons.

Semarang

The Semarang launch will be conducted on Wednesday, 18 December, at Paragon XXI, from 09.00 – 12.00. Similar to the Surabaya launch, the Semarang launch will be followed by a radio broadcast event in which the interactive discussion will be live recorded before the invitees. The launch will be conducted with Atlas Media which have worked with the ILO for broadcast events in the provincial level. The discussion will be aired by TraxFM, a radio partner of Atlas Media and one of the leading radio stations in Semarang.