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Mobilizing Social Capital: Communication and Collaboration in Disability Empowerment

Individual Paper

Individual Paper

9:00 am

10 July 2025

Forum 3 (Melbourne Connect)

Session 6: Equality and Social Inclusion: Gender, Disabillity and Educational Perspectives

One Conference streams

Inequality and inclusion

Submission Description

This paper seeks to examine how DILANS Indonesia (Disabled and Elderly People's Movement) empowers its members through a series of collaborations and strengthening internal activities. The study uses the perspective of social capital and explores how communication is used to strengthen members, collaborative cooperation with various parties, and advocacy. Music concerts, museum tours, and yoga, are bonding social capital that strengthens togetherness among DILANS members. Building relationships with the wider community, such as educational institutions, small medium enterprises, and BISINDO (Sign Language Indonesia), is bridging social capital that helps in opening access to external resources. Linking social capital is implemented by conducting sidewalk audits and sidewalk policy advocacy by providing input to the Ministry of PUPR (Ministry of Public Works and Housing of the Republic of Indonesia) as well as collaboration with international donors such as the Ford Foundation for financial support.

Presenters

Presenters

Individual Paper Presenters

Juni Alfiah Chusjairi - Universitas Paramadina