INDONESIA: MOVING AWAY FROM SEGREGATED EDUCATION TO INCLUSIVE EDUCATION FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

This research aims to find out in what extends Indonesia has implemented inclusive education for people with disability. This research address two questions. First, what are the efforts Indonesia has established to move from segregated education to inclusive education? Second, what are the issues Indonesia has to encounter to move from segregated education to inclusive education?This research used qualitative research method which used convention, regulation, literature and any other related documents for instance, United Nations and Non-Governmental Organization documents to obtain the required information. The result finds out that Indonesia has shown some efforts to implement inclusive education such as adopted several policies, allocated an extra budget and raise social awareness. However, the implementation is stillnot effective due to several issues Indonesia has to encounter such as history of segregated education, unsuccessful implementation of regulation, lack of monitoring, inadequate budgets and minimum effort to raise awareness. As the result, even if Indonesia has shown efforts to implement inclusive education, Indonesia still encounter many difficulties which might resulting people with disabilities are still in special school.