I would like to share with you a video taken during my visit to Indonesia in June 2009 as chairman of The Nippon Foundation and WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination.    Indonesia, the fourth largest country in the world in terms of population, eliminated leprosy as a public health problem at the national level in 2000, reducing the prevalence of the disease to less than one case per 10,000 people nine years after the WHO set the target in 1991. However, the situation had since remained static, with little change in either the prevalence rate or the new case detection rate. Similarly, there had been no reduction in the ratio of child cases. During my three-day stay, I visited a leprosy colony in East Java, which had the highest incidence of the disease in the country, and an elementary school where I sat in on a lesson about leprosy being given by Mr. Ahmad Zainudin, a teacher who spoke from personal experience having himself been cured of leprosy.  I had met him for the first time in 2007, after which I supported his efforts to set up PerMaTa, an organization of and for people affected by leprosy, also known as Hansen�fs disease. PerMaTa is dedicated to fighting for the rights of its members, raising awareness of leprosy and rooting out stigma, and is active in three of Indonesia�fs 34 provinces. Indonesia continues to tackle leprosy and as of 2019 ranks third after India and Brazil in terms of annual new cases of the disease.