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August 10th, 2010 
gempita.org Sejak beberapa hari ini gempita.org sedang dalam proses perubahan secara besar-besaran, baik itu dari sisi tampilan maupun fungsi-fungsi yang diganti dan/atau ditambahkan. Semoga teman-teman sekalian menyukai wajah baru gempita.org ini. Mohon apabila terdapat error, kerusakan, kesalahan, dan lain sebagainya baik itu dari segi tampilan, query, proses eksekusi yang lambat silahkan dilaporkan ke admin. melalui email : admin[at]gempita[dot]org dengan subject/judul email yang disertai dengan kata “Laporan”. Terima kasih dan sekali lagi selamat menikmati gempita.org yang baru. HIDUP INDONESIA!!!
Society For All
August 3rd, 2010 Frenia Nababan 
“Nothing About Us Without Us”
Once again, I had an oppurtunity to be involved in a training in Bangkok which was organized by APCD and JICA. It was a little bit different from the first training that I had attended. This time, the participants of the training were not only people with disabilities but also people without disabilities whom are workers of Community Based Rehabilitation programs in the Asia Pacific Region.
As a Sign language interpreter for Fachri Siradz from Sehjira Foundation and as a representative of Gempita (Sehjira’s partner), I have gained more knowledge about the importance of working with and in the community level. Why in the community? Because sometimes we forget that we are all belongs to a community and this way of thinking make us tend to make plans with a very high expectation, such as : changing the rules and changing this world. But in order to achieve it, we often neglect the steps that we should have taken to achieve our big goal.
Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) believes that in order to change the world, firstly and more importantly we have to try from a very basic level, grass root level, changing the mindset of our own community and the people who lived in it. Even though it seems to be very easy to understand, the implementation of this value may have some barriers.
One of the biggest barrier that might occurred is the self-determination of a person with disabilities themselves. Therefore, working closely with Independent Living Movement (ILM) has made a very significant evolution of CBR’s.
CBR may be defined, according to three United Nation Agencies, ILO, UNESCO, and the WHO, as a “strategy within community development for the rehabilitation, equalization of opportunities, and social integration of all people with disabilities.
