JSPO is a separate department of the Jakarta I Politech of Health Sciences.
The Cambodia Trust is the management and technical facilitator of the project.
Teachers for specialist prosthetics and orthotics subjects are expatriates, including Cambodians trained by the Cambodia Trust.
Five Indonesians have begun training overseas as teachers at TATCOT (Tanzania Training Centre for Orthopaedic Technology). They will eventually replace expatriate lecturers.
The third year of study and clinical experience will take place in the Fatmawati Hospital in South Jakarta.
The Indonesian Government has provided a building and local teaching staff for JSPO.
Indonesia has a population of 240 million with up to 2 million people needing prosthetic and orthotic services.
JSPO has the potential to become a ‘training of trainers’ institute to provide trainers for other new schools in this vast country.
The school will have support and input from the International Society for Prosthetics & Orthotics (ISPO) and will collaborate with the Kobe College of Medical Welfare (Sanda School) in Japan.
JSPO will have an advisory board made up of persons with disabilities, local advocates, philanthropists, members of the business community, international technical experts and Ministry of Health representatives.
Indonesia has normal causes of disability, including diabetes and road traffic accidents, which result in people needing prosthetic limbs and orthopaedic braces.
