Legal Aid Online Application for People with Disabilities - Opportunities and Challenges

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220204.039How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Application; Android; Legal Aid; PwDs

Abstract

Indonesia has ratified the Convention on The Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) through Law No. 19/ 2011 in the same year when Law No. 16/ 2011 concerning Legal Aid was legalized too. Although there are two Laws which concerns on People with disabilities (PwDs), they still face problems to access legal justice. This study withdraw the legal opportunity and chalengging in developing an Android Applications for Legal Aid Services for. The study used a normative juridical approach by analyzing regulations related to PwDs. It also did asurvey which involved PwDs in Medan, Binjai and Deli Serdang Districts of North Sumaetra Province. This study found that (1) the rules have accommodated the provision of legal aid to PwDs; (2) there are some challenges in developing an android application to provide online legal aid for PwDs which is not available yet. As conclusion, in order to fullfill PwDs rights in access to justice, it is a must to provide an easy and cheap facility to access legal aid such as an android application. As suggestion, it is necessary to develop an android application for legal aid for PwDs.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rosmalinda
AU  - Ningrum Natasya Sirait
AU  - Ade Candra
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/02/15
TI  - Legal Aid Online Application for People with Disabilities - Opportunities and Challenges
BT  - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Public Policy, Social Computing and Development (ICOPOSDEV 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 254
EP  - 258
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220204.039
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220204.039
ID  - 2022
ER  -