THE DESCRIPTION OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN INDONESIA

Inclusive education is the system of educational provision that provides opportunities for alllearrers \nregardless of differences in age, gender, ethnicity, language, disability, socioeconomic status, HIV or \nAIDS status, potential and ability to participate in education or learning in an educational setting together \nwith the students in general. Inclusive school is a school that is implementing inclusive education to \naccommodate all children regardless of physical condition, intellectual, social, emotional, linguistic or \nother conditions. This includes children with disabilities or special educational needs including talented \nchildren, street and working children, children from remote and nomadic populations, children from \nlinguistic minorities, ethnic and cultural and children who have weakness or other marginalized groups. \nIn this paper, it is bounded on children with disabilities or special educational needs. \nThe aim of inclusive education is to make all children receive a quality education in accordance \nwith the needs and capabilities as well as providing education to realize that values diversity an:l \ndiscriminatory acts for all children, even for children with special needs. Children with special needs \nare children who experience lapses of intellectual, physical, social or emotional markedly from what \nis regarded as normal growth and development, which consists ofblind children, children with \nhearing impairment, mental retardation children, quadriplegic children, unsociable children, talentw \nchildren, autism children, children with learning disabilities and children's emotional disturbance or \nbehavioral, childem with double and complex disability. Of course the related person can not receive \nthe maximum benefit from public school programs and may require special or additional teaching \nclasses and a variety of special education services . \nThe purpose of knowing the description of inclusive education, among others, is to obtain a \npicture of the reality of inclusive schools and matters relating to the implementation of inclusive \nschools in Indonesia.