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  • Title: A small, happy and prosperous family.
    Author: Suyono H.
    Journal: Integration; 1992 Aug; (33):4-10. PubMed ID: 12343893.
    Abstract:
    Despite crop failures, epidemics, and wars during the 1st 1/2 of the 20th century, Indonesia's population grew steadily from 37 million in 1905 to 60.1 million in 1930 to 97 million by 1961. Between 1961 and 1971, the population was growing at an annual rate of 2.07% reaching 119 million in 1971. It grew even faster at an annual rate of 2.32% during 1971-80 attaining 147 million in 1980. Then the growth rate fell to 1.97% during 1980 and 1990 primarily attributable to the effect of the National Family Planning (FP) Program launched in 1969 as an integral part of the National Development Plan. As a result of the government population control approach the total fertility rate (TFR) fell from 5.6 in 1967-70 to 3.0 in 1989-91. The fertility rate of women aged 15-19 dropped from 155 during 1967-70 to 67 during 1989-91. The population growth rate has been reduced from a potentially insupportable level of over 2.32% during 1971-80 to 1.97% during 1980-90. The Indonesian FP Program and the National Family Planning Coordinating Board's (BKKBN) activities are determined by the policies of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), the supreme legislative body representing the people. The achievements of the 22-year old National FP Program are attributed to effective information, education, and motivational campaigns, institutional development, wide availability of contraceptives and large coverage of village-based health care. The program is based on the concept of the small, happy, and prosperous family adopted in 1974. Volunteer workers at health service posts register mothers, weigh babies, and provide education on nutrition, oral rehydration, immunization, and FP. Self-reliant FP expanded form under 5% of total acceptors in 1987 to 22% by 191. 26.3% of nonacceptors of FP were young couples wanting a child in 1991, while 69.3% of married couples have used contraception.
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