PEMENUHAN HAK PENYANDANG DISABILITAS DALAM MENDAPATKAN PEKERJAAN DI BUMN

Abstract

Persons with disabilities have a right for getting a proper job. For assuring the right, the Government of Indonesia has issued Law No. 8 of 2016 on Persons with disabilities. Article 53 (1) of the law provides the obligations of the State-owned Enterprises of Indonesia to employ persons with disabilities at least 2% of their total workers. This research conducted for analyzing the challenges and opportunities faced by the stakeholders and persons with disabilities for getting a job at the State-owned Enterprises of Indonesia in Aceh. The research uses empirical legal method with analytic descriptive approach. The results show that the fulfillment of their right for working at the State-owned Enterprises of Indonesia in Aceh is not executing successfully. Althought, there are some regulations on disabilities in Aceh, namely Qanun Aceh on Employment, and the Regulation of Banda Aceh Major on The fulfillment of the Persons with Disabilities’ right for getting a proper job, but only one of four respondent companies has hired persons with disabilities. It has happened because discrimination in some certain job or position, a gap between competency and job’s requirements in the working place, and lack of education and skills of the persons with disabilities.