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A ramp was available in front of a building. The path was not steep so that wheelchair users could enter without climbing the stairs. At a glance, the facility showed that a city started to pay attention to the citizens’ needs. Yet, a few steps along the ramp, a flower pot stood right on the path. The facility was available, but could not be used as intended.

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For some people, energy transition may sound like a way out of dependence on fossil fuels. Cleaner energy, renewable energy, reduction in emission, and environmental recovery were all words used in many government policies.

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For some people, a trip to a bus stop might be a few hundred meters away. Yet for those in wheelchairs, women returning home at night, or cyclist who had to deal with motor vehicles, that same distance posed different challenges. In Yogyakarta, that issue was blatantly apparent in people’s day-to-day use of public transport.

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The smokes may not have always been visible. Yet, its trail was everywhere including in schools, highways, public spaces, and places where children and young people grew up.

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The hall on the third floor, the City Health Agency in Surakarta, Thursday, 27 August 2026, was hot. Yet, that did not prevent people with disability, community organisations, local governments, and other stakeholders to meet. They came with one objective: to ensure that city development proceed by incorporating their voices that were often ignored in decision making processes.

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Press freedom did not always mean silenced through reporting restriction. Often, it worked through much subtler means, for example a phone call from unknown individuals, a demand that certain text be scrutinised before publication, threats of ad removal, lawsuit, and fear that slowly penetrated the editing room.

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The Global Pledge “No One Left Behind” as the spirit of SDGs faced major challenges in Indonesia. As the country moved towards 2030, the development objective(s) remained far below expectation, particularly for vulnerable groups such as people with disability who faced gaps in access to education, employment, social protection, and public services.

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The screening of Istimewa film in Solo on Thursday 13 August was not simply a screening of a drama film. The film producer had close connection to the story of a family, struggle, loss, and opportunities for people with disability as the main characters in a cinematic work.