Rumah Aman – Renovation of the dormitory in Jongaya has started!
July 2023. The German Embassy in Jakarta is supporting us in renovating the dormitory and the policlinic in the leprosy village of Jongaya in Makassar, South Sulawesi! This will enable us to offer people in need a “Rumah Aman”, a safe house where they can live for a while to recover from stigma and discrimination […]
The Bergen International Conference on Leprosy
June 2023. Yuliati, vice chair PerMaTa, spoke a the conference to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the discovery of the leprosy bacillus. Watch her speech here! The event was organized by the Sasakawa Leprosy (Hansen’s Disease) Initiative and the University of Bergen, and attended by around 200 people, including medical experts, human rights advocates, historical […]
Stigma Survey in Gowa
June 2023. PerMaTa Sulsel-YDTI staff conducted a stigma survey that formed the social part of the MetLep medical research project of Gadjah Mada University and the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Jakarta, which is supported by the Leprosy Research Initiative (LRI). Our part was simply to collect data on the knowledge, attitudes and behaviour […]
Public Speaking workshop in Malino – Our last VOICE training
May 2023. The last workshop for our young Sipakatau and Pakarena teams affected by leprosy took place on 19-21 May 2023 in the mountains of Malino in South Sulawesi. Sadly, the VOICE project will come to an end after 2×2 years. This last gathering brought together not only the young VOICE teams but also other young […]
YDTI – PerMaTa moved into a new office!
April 2023. PerMaTa and YDTI have had a joint office for several years now. The contract for our previous office in Ville Park, Barombong, expired and it took us a long time to find a new suitable office. As our team is partly from Makassar and partly from Gowa, we were looking for a house […]