The Efforts of Independent Lepers Association in Developing Life Long Education among the Lepers in District of Soreang, Parepare, Indonesia

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10.2991/nfe-16.2017.24How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Leprosy, Lepers, Life Long Education

Abstract

Parepare is a city located in South Sulawesi province, Indonesia. By having dense population, cultural diversities, and special characteristics in its communities, turn Parepare to have various social problems including; unemployment, crime, poor education, as well as cases of infectious diseases that cause sufferers to experience social dysfunctions for instance, leprosy. Leprosy leads to social problem such as stigma and discrimination in the community. The stigma of the disease which is identical with poor people is a big social problem like the difficulty to be hired and get a job. The research was conducted in Lauleng area in district of Soreang, Parepare. The reason for selecting the area was based on its characteristic as an endemic leprosy area. This was a qualitative research. The results of the research described that Lepers Association in Life Long Education organization built trust by improving the trust among members, members and other people, as well as their partners. The organization built a social relation by establishing trust with the public through information media, as well as creating a norm by balancing the rights and obligations of all members. Meanwhile, the obstacles faced were lack of human resources support due to low education, lack of openness among its members, as well as lack of members' awareness of the association. The conclusion of this research was that Independent Lepers Association in Life Long Education among Lepers in district of Soreang as the organization process of empowering people who were experienced and were suffering leprosy was conducted and organized by a social organization in order to gain a proper living for themselves or others.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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