In the Second Programme, greater attention is paid to issues related to social welfare, including the care for the disabled. Refreshments and a high tea buffet were served to the delegates at the State Palace. After which, we left in a convoy for the hotel. The Plenary Session started after lunch. The Minister Coordinator for People's Welfare, Mr Azwar Anas, gave the keynote address at the Plenary Session.
Disability is a limitation within an individual caused by physical, mental or sensory impairment.
The problem is how to enable and empower the disabled persons to reach an optimum level of physical, mental and social functioning in order to provide them with the means to direct their own lives through independent living. To remove these barriers requires changes in the structures and systems of our society. The Minister felt that society is obliged to make the physical environment, housing and transportation, social and health services, education and work opportunities, cultural and social life, including sports and recreational facilities, completely accessible to disabled persons. In conjunction with the conference, an exhibition of products and handicrafts made by disabled workers of the various charitable organisations in Indonesia was organised at the lobby of the Karana Grand Ballroom of the hotel. I was given the privilege of displaying photographs of my paintings on a panel set up specially for me.