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he Social Affairs Ministry has responded to concerns that the ministry might be exercising control over the National Disabilities Commission (KND), saying that it did not interfere in any of the commission’s functions.
“It need not be a concern, because the [KND] secretariat has merely an administrative support [function] and there is no intervention from the Social Affairs Ministry,” Social Affairs Minister Juliari Batubara said in a statement on Tuesday.
On June 8, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo issued Presidential Regulation No. 68/2020 on the KND, which placed the commission as a work unit under the Social Affairs Ministry.
Disability rights organizations from across the country expressed concerns over potential conflicts of interest between the KND and the ministry, whose purview does not include human rights issues.
The groups also objected to the new KND regulation for limiting opportunities for persons with disabilities to participate in the KND as members. The groups also regretted that persons with disabilities were not involved in drafting the new regulation.
Juliari said he believed that the ministry had followed the rules in drafting the KND regulation as stipulated in Law No. 8/2016 on people with disabilities, which mandates that the Social Affairs Ministry coordinate with the relevant institutions on drafting new regulations.
Under the law, the Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Ministry was to initiate the drafting process in discussion with the Social Affairs Ministry, the Finance Ministry and the Law and Human Rights Ministry, before it was submitted for the President’s approval, Juliari said.
