This study aims at identifying the accessibility of people with disabilities to the tourism activities in Batu City.

The Malang City in Indonesia, declares itself to be inclusive city, but it turns out that there are still many people with disabilities’ – deafness – rights seem not been fulfilled, one of which become the focus of this research. For deaf people, one of their efforts to seek the fulfillment of their rights is to form a collectivity. For that reason, the Akar Tuli was built, with the motive to bring Deaf youth into a forum which allows them to voice their rights. This study aims to determine, analyze and describe how social action of Akar Tuli as a social movement through advocation for the rights of deaf people in Malang City. This research uses the New Social Movement Theory, namely ‘The Identity-Oriented Theory’ that seek the explanation of how this community carries out social movements to achieve their goals by their identity. As a community, there would be a very strong reason for Akar Tuli to keeps them going to carry out various kinds of movements. That is, the fulfillment of the rights of deaf people to the sign language they use to communicate and also as their identity. Sign language is the strengthen for Akar Tuli to socialization and education about the disability rights by collaborate with government or non-government organization in Malang. Furthermore, accessibility is also a keypoint for them. The conclusion is Akar Tuli take social action as social movement that aims to encourage disability awareness in Malang City. Hopefully, the Deaf people have the same rights as a citizen, even though their communicate in different ways.

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis tingkat advokasi aktivis perempuan di Lembga Berbasis Komunitas (LBK) Perempuan Singkong Jaya terhadap penyintas Kekerasan Dalam Rumah Tangga (KDRT). Malang Raya memiliki jumlah kasus kekerasan dalam rumah tangga tertinggi di Jawa Timur. Meskipun terdapat banyak pihak yang berupaya untuk melakukan pencegahan, namun kasus KDRT masih mengalami peningkatan yang signifikan tiap tahunnya. Aktivis perempuan di LBK Perempuan Singkong Jaya merupakan salah satu pihak yang berperan penting dalam melakukan berbagai upaya untuk menghapuskan kasus kekerasan terhadap perempuan yaitu dengan cara melakukan advokasi atau pendampingan. Penelitian ini menggunakan konsep advokasi milik Robert L. Schneider (2008), untuk mengukur tingkat advokasi yang dilakukan oleh LBK Perempuan Singkong Jaya. Penelitian kuantitatif-deskriptif ini menggunakan metode pengumpulan data dengan observasi, kuesioner, wawancara, dan dokumentasi. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa tingkat advokasi aktivis perempuan di LBK Perempuan Singkong Jaya terhadap penyintas KDRT masuk ke dalam kategori tinggi dengan persentase 43,3 persen yang berarti aktivis perempuan tersebut memiliki kemampuan untuk melakukan pendampingan terhadap penyintas KDRT melalui proses advokasi. Selain melakukan pendampingan penyintas kekerasan, aktivis perempuan di LBK Perempuan Singkong Jaya juga melakukan pemberdayaan perempuan sebagai tahap akhir dalam proses advokasi yang telah dilaksanakan. This study aims to analyze the advocacy level of women’s activists at LBK Perempuan Singkong Jaya against survivors of Domestic Violence. Malang Raya has the highest number of cases of domestic violence in East Java. Even though there are many parties who are trying to take precautions, but cases of domestic violence still experience a significant increase each year. Women activists at LBK Perempuan Singkong Jaya are one of the parties who play an important role in making various efforts to eliminate cases of violence against women, namely by doing advocacy or assistance. This study uses the advocacy concept of Robert L. Schneider (2008), to measure the level of advocacy carried out by LBK Perempuan Singkong Jaya. This quantitative-descriptive research uses data collection methods with observation, questionnaires, interviews, and documentation. The results of this study indicate that the level of advocacy for women activists at LBK Perempuan Singkong Jaya for KDRT survivors falls into the high category with a percentage of 43.3 percent, which means that these women activists have the ability to provide assistance to survivors of domestic violence through the advocacy process. In addition to providing assistance for survivors of violence, women activists at LBK Perempuan Singkong Jaya also empower women as the final stage in the advocacy process that has been implemented.

The problems of disability in Indonesia are crucial, such as problems of stigma, social inequalities, as well as education issues. In addition to the low level of education, disability education has also experienced segregation, in general they are placed in separate education from non-disabled students, ie in special schools (SLB). The existence of SLB is no longer the right choice for people with disabilities. So, today many urgent and seek education that aims to blend disability with others. Including one of the existing institutions in East Java, namely Hellen Keller International. This paper seeks to trace the social capital utilized by the Hellen Keller International (HKI) institution in pursuing inclusive education in East Java. The data search is coupled with descriptive qualitative research method that is using interview, observation, and documentation. The results of this study indicate that HKI has inclusive education development strategy in East Java by utilizing social capital in the form of network and trust. HKI seeks to raise public awareness, especially the local government and related agencies, through public discussions and dialogue. HKI utilizes social networking capital, by bringing in public figures, such as humanists and academics in the process of discussion. It is the first step that makes HKI have confidence in carrying out the development of inclusive education next stage until issuing regulation in the form of Governor Regulation, No, 6, 2011. The conclusion of this research is the utilization of social capital as a strategy undertaken HKI as a nongovernmental organization has a significant role in seeking inclusive education in East Java.

Debatable benefit of the emergent hegemonies view of disability as part of cultural diversity has increasingly discussed. This view has positively replaced the old schools (medical model, charity model and so forth) from seeing disability as impairment and oppression to seeing disability as one of cultural range (which is technically termed as cultural sub-variant or micro-cultural group). Of this premise, this paper seeks the potential of disability inclusion in higher education from cultural perspective. The objective of this research is to measure the index of inclusion in Indonesia higher education that focus on cultural dimension. Adopting index for inclusion by Tony Booth, this research invited 219 respondents consist of lecturers, staffs, students with and without disability from 12 universities in Indonesia to share their perspective in responding the disability inclusion in higher education. Descriptive statistics was applied to elicit the pattern of the data, the findings were elaborated through the multiculturalism perspectives. Issues, challenges and opportunity was expounded to address the cultural perspectives of university community in welcoming disability as part of cultural diversity.