Connie Chairunnisa, Connie
The perspective of inclusive school in Jakarta province is considered not too
optimal in helping children with special needs to reach a better future. The various reason
stated by the chosen school that was chosen based on the decision of the Provincial
Education Depart ment’s Special Capital Region Jakarta No. 623/2011 about the names of
chosen schools that are going to be an inclusive school in 2011 which are 164 schools of
them in five different regions in Jakarta. The complaint that was brought up from 17
schools surveyed are infrastructure is inadequate, lack of human resources to meet the
requirements as a special tutor, low gross enrollment rate for children with special needs
and understanding of the unfavorable attitude of the parents and community to children
with special needs.
This research has an insight into the long term ahead. Not only to develop the education
strategy that works more effective than the previous strategy in the Inclusive schools so
that the output and the input more clearly to describe whether the children with special
needs could go to the school or not, but also to find out the successful of inclusive
schools in helping the children with special needs to reach a better future and to take their
place in the real social life in order to get a job. The focus of this research are the
management of the inclusive school itself, the process of learning in the school, the
education strategy, the profile of the student who needs special treatment and their
parents. The Research used qualitative method, a case study of inclusive school in south
Jakarta and center Jakarta with the phenomenological paradigm, snowball sampling and
also in-depth interview.
This research offers some solutions of the problem. They are (1) the improving
quality of education services for children with special needs through the development of
modification curriculum and the given of special tutor (2) the introduction stage strategy
(3) the strategy development through the support and participation of stakeholders (4) the
acculturation strategy which is consistently and systematically executed inherent in
people’s lives.