Apr 2, 2021
Countries across Asia are trying everything from fertility tours to baby bonuses to spur population growth in an aging world. Not so in Indonesia, where officials are trying to convince people to have fewer children.
The world’s fourth most-populous country is promoting later marriages, family planning and contraception to lower its fertility rate to 2.1 children per woman by 2025. That’s the “replacement rate” that would effectively flatten population growth in the country of 270 million, damping some concerns that overcrowding could mean fewer job opportunities and strains on government services.
Indonesia’s latest push a family planning campaign starting from late January follows a decadeslong struggle to bring the fertility rate down from three children per woman in the early 1990s. The difference now, National Population and Family Planning Agency Head Hasto Wardoyo says, is that instead of just slowing population growth, Indonesia is aiming
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Indonesian school in hot water over headscarf rule Video of Christian father objecting to rule being forced on daughter sparks religious freedom row
A school in Padang, Indonesia, has sparked controversy by requiring non-Muslim girls to wear headscarves. (Photo: Aman Rochman/AFP)
A video of an argument between a Christian parent and a teacher at a state-run vocational high school that recently went viral on social media has raised concerns over religious freedom in Indonesia s mainstream educational institutions.
In the video, Elianu Hia, a Protestant, took issue with a school rule that required his first-grade daughter to wear a headscarf.
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Statistically more vulnerable in PNG
Interviews conducted by the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in 2003 indicated criminal groups used the conflict to justify rape. A nun told UNIFEM that life for women during the conflict was like living “between two guns”. In the years following the conflict, women continued to feel threatened by weapons still in circulation, according to one local development agency cited by UNIFEM. But even outside this bloody theatre of war, and years later, the situation remains grim for women. The problem is bad. We pretend that it is not there, Ume Wainetti, head of the Family and Sexual Action Committee, a government programme set up to address gender violence, told IRIN in March 2012.