The Master of Laws Student Family (KMMIH) held its Special Webinar on Transgender Women on Friday, September 17, 2021, organized in response to a lack of attention given to Yogyakarta's transgender women community.
The webinar opened with remarks from Dr. Khotibul Umam, S.H., LL.M., Secretary of the Master of Laws Program, who expressed his gratitude to the speakers for taking the time to share information and knowledge with students and the public. He hoped the webinar would help fill a gap in public discourse around the challenges faced by Yogyakarta's transgender women community in accessing health facilities and services, and help identify solutions to those access issues, alongside better fulfillment of trans women's rights as Indonesian citizens.
The webinar featured four speakers who outlined the challenges currently facing Yogyakarta's transgender women community: drg. Pambajun Setyaningastutie (Head of the DIY Provincial Health Office), Sri Wiyanti Eddyono, S.H., LL.M., Ph.D. (lecturer, FH UGM), Shinta Maharani (Chair, AJI Yogyakarta), and Rully Malay (Chair, Yogyakarta Waria Crisis Center), with Shinta Maharani also serving as respondent representing the trans women's community.
Attendees included both students and members of the public, who showed strong enthusiasm — reflected in the large number of questions submitted both directly and via the Zoom chat.
The webinar concluded that many in the trans women's community face difficulty accessing health services, and called for the government to be more proactive and consistent in providing equitable support to this community, so that all citizens can receive their rights fairly.
