Government in Their Ignorance towards Blinds’ Education

The government as a policy maker is obligate (v. wajib) to accomodate the needs of every element of society. It also means they have to keep themselves away from self-interest fullfilment (n. pemenuhan) and discrimination. The government should treat societies equally, especially for the blind people in educational sector in order to make sure blind people are not discriminated in terms of education. In fact, there are still several cases that government turned out not to have any concern, even humiliated (v. menghinakan) the blinds.  Therefore (adv. oleh karena itu) this paper will explain unjust (adj. ketidakadilan) treatment of government in educational service for blinds.

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For instance, recently happening in the public schools, schools unreasonably do not accept a blind student due to (phr. karena) the absence of teaching-blind-oriented educational infrastructure and instrument (n. alat). They claim, in studying, the blind students are not able to go together with ordinary students because their visual impairment (phr. keterbatasan penglihatan). Schools are seemingly worried on being hardened by them. Let along (phr. apalagi) most teachers who are complaining being uneducated in teaching blind student and normal students in a mixture (n. percampuran/penggabungan).

In this case, obviously (adv. dengan jelas) seen government does not put sufficient (adj. tidak cukup) concern for improving special teacher for blind in numbers. There should be planning and budgetting provided for increasing the number of the special teachers or in another case training certain teachers in public school for dealing with (phr. berhubungan) class mixture between blind students and ordinary students.

The worst case raises in school admission. The discrimination humiliates the rights of blinds students both directly and indirectly. Direct discrimination happens in Makassar when public schools and universities refused them by including ‘not accepting disabilities’ in their admission requirement. Then indirect discrimination was that the school provided application form in an inaccessible format for blinds, in this case all difables experienced (v. mengalami).

Government with their rights in making social decision have responsibility to look after (phr. membela) diffables’ rights, especially in education service. The concern must be serious and away from perjury (n. janji palsu). Toward education, blind students needs extra support and aid, such as teaching specialists or supportive equipment in classrom and a ramp (n. jalur landai) or special road for their mobilization.

How about if the blind students are in exam? This typical question is the other frequently-asked one by teachers or common people. As has been done so far by Blind Union (PERTUNI) by recruiting volunteers to assist the blind students during their exam, the government should learn that the blinds are a part of society that needs education and there is no way of ignoring (v. mengabaikan) the difficulties to do it. As another reference for government in order to learn how to treat (v. memperlakukan) diffables like blind well, they should learn from government of Australia who put high concern on this issue by providing free, supportive transportation, special ramp for blind and special educational system and instrument for dealing with blind people.

Written By: Rahmat J. | President of HEC