4900 ______________________________________________________________ DOI: https://doi.org/10.33258/birci.v4i3.2277 Government Policy on Accessibility of Persons with Disabilities in Finding Jobs in Pematangsiantar City Alyunzira Wardani 1 , Zulkifli 2 , Indra Fauzan 3 1,2,3 University of Sumatera, Indonesia alyunziraws@gmail.com I. Introduction The application of accessibility for persons with disabilities to gain access as job seekers or as workers has not been further regulated in a comprehensive regulation to ensure the protection of the rights of persons with disabilities. The government as the implementer of the law has not implemented ensuring the fulfillment of accessibility for persons with disabilities in obtaining employment opportunities. This of course needs more handling and attention to efforts to equalize or provide access to persons with disabilities to channel their potential in all aspects of state and community administration so as to achieve a better level of community welfare in social development. Pematangsiantar City as one of the largest cities in North Sumatra Province needs to carry out social development for the welfare of the community, including people with disabilities. Based on the author's understanding, Pematangsiantar City does not yet have a Regional Regulation that regulates the rights of persons with disabilities in Pematangsiantar City. Based on data from the Social Service of Pematangsiantar City in 2020, the number of people with disabilities in Pematangsiantar City is 323 people. Based on these data, it is known that 260 people with disabilities do not work or around 90% are categorized as unemployed and on average they come from underprivileged families. Based on the results of the assessment and mentoring that has been carried out with persons with disabilities in Pematangsiantar City, the difficulty of persons with disabilities in obtaining employment is due to the lack of absorption of workers with disabilities in the world of work. During the last 5 years, it is known that there are still many companies, both Abstract: This study aims to determine the Government Policy on Accessibility of Persons with Disabilities in Finding Jobs in Pematangsiantar City. this research uses a qualitative approach. The result of this study shows Government policies related to the accessibility of persons with disabilities in obtaining employment in Pematangsiantar City are not yet fully available. This can be seen from the unavailability of programs for handling persons with disabilities from the P3A Social Service in the form of social assistance, skills training, and social advocacy for the fulfillment of the rights of persons with disabilities. Programs from the Manpower Office are not yet available, namely the lack of advocacy carried out by the Manpower Office regarding the marketing of workers with disabilities, the availability of job vacancies information, the provision of job fairs, and training programs for disabilities that are still planned but have not been realized. The program from the Regional Personnel Agency (BKD) has not met the 2% quota for employing persons with disabilities. Keywords Government policy; accessibility; disabilities; finding jobs