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Indonesia requires better population management
Indonesia requires better population management so its huge population can be turned into quality human resource potential, according to National Family Planning and Population Agency head Fasli Jalal.
Speaking at the commemoration ceremony of the 20th Family Day in Bantul, Yogyakarta, on Tuesday, Fasli said in order to turn people into smart, healthy and qualified individuals, health services and education facilities in the country needed to be improved.
“We still lack [such improvements],” Fasli told the ceremony.
A lack of adequate population management, according to Fasli, has caused a drop in Indonesia’s human development index (HDI), which ranks the country 121st out of the world’s 187 nations.
“Our best position was 108th in 1990, then we slipped into 112th and now we’re 121st,” he said.
Indonesia’s population according to the 2010 census is 237.6 million with an annual growth rate of 1.49 percent, or 4.5 million.
Fasli also called on all the elements of the community, especially families, to help improve the country’s human resources and deal with population-related problems.
In the 40 years ahead, he said, Indonesia’s population was predicted to double. By 2025, the elderly would number 80 million and would all require proper health services.
Speaking at the same event, Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X highlighted the important role of female teenagers.
“A lack of attention to female teenagers has accounted for promiscuity, out-of-wedlock pregnancies and illegal abortions,” Sultan said.
Researcher Iwu Utomo of the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute, Australian National University (ANU), recently urged the Indonesian government to amend the law on marriage, which allows girls to get married at the age of 16.
“The impact is very negative. They’re more vulnerable when delivering babies than those above 20,” Iwu said in Yogyakarta recently.
Data from the 2010 United Nations’ World Population Prospects website shows that 1.7 million females delivered babies under the age of 24 annually in Indonesia. Of this figure, half were teenagers.
The data said Indonesia also had the second highest number of unwanted pregnancies and abortions in Asia — 37 cases in every 1,000 women of productive age.
Considering the dangers to human health, Iwu said, the government had to prevent early pregnancies from occurring, with one way of doing so by increasing the age limit for girls to get married.
United Nations’ Population Fund (UNFPA) Indonesia national project officer of reproductive health Melania Hidayat, said the price of pregnancy at an early age was very high, with women unable to work, high pregnancy risks and women tending to become victims of domestic violence.
The world is currently home to some 600 million teenagers, 500 million of which live in developing countries like Indonesia.
She also said that teenage pregnancies were also a manifestation of poverty, unequal gender relations and low education levels.
“Investment in women is needed, namely education. UNFPA is ready to support it [the Marriage Law amendment], as allowing 16-year-old girls to marry is not in line with global commitments,” she said.
3 Comments on "Indonesia requires better population management"
Arthur on Thu, 18th Jul 2013 11:10 am
“Indië verloren, rampspoed geboren”.
Indie (Indonesia) lost, disaster born.
That was the slogan the Dutch government used to mobilise the Dutch population to sacrifice 6.150 soldiers (and 150,000 Indonesians) in a futile attempt to hold on to Indonesia during 1946-1949, that had been a Dutch colony for three centuries and had been lifted from near stone age conditions, albeit in a not too-humanitarian proces (but it is easy to be humanitarian if you have 100 virtual energy slaves at your command). It was the Roosevelt government that had imposed an oil embargo against Japan in a succesful attempt to lure/force the Japanese into war with the US and strike against Pearl Harbour, to eliminate, from Japanese perspective, the threat in the flank and get the necessary oil elsewhere, that is in the Dutch East Indies. The three year Japanese rule was enough for the local population to see that Europeans could be beaten and an insurrection followed, the rest is history and 100,000 Dutch colonialists returned home (what are we going to do with the millions of ‘Dutch’ in south-Africa, once the shtf there?). Today I am glad we got rid of Indonesia. We have 40,000 well integrated Christian ‘Molukkers’, who are here because they remained loyal to Dutch rule. The 238 million Indonesians are a little too much to be handled by 15 million Dutch, good luck to them. Countries like Egypt, India, Bangladesh and Indonesia will probably be hard hit in the coming decades.
Kenz300 on Fri, 19th Jul 2013 1:09 pm
Every country needs to develop a plan to balance its population with its resources; food, water, energy and JOBS.
THose that do not will be exporting their people and their problems.
It is just simple math….. too many people chasing too few jobs drives down wages and increases unemployment.
Arthur on Fri, 19th Jul 2013 5:18 pm
“Those that do not will be exporting their people and their problems.”
Export only succeeds if there are willing importers.
There won’t be any. In the US one city after the other will follow Detroit into bankruptcy, showing what happens if you buy into the ADL/SPLC ‘diversity is our strength’ balloney.
I have seen several sensible US black conservatives taking side last week in the Trayvon fiasco against the media and their campaign in stirring up racial hatred and it is not difficult to guess why: they are afraid for a backlash and that the Euro-Americans at some point will have enough of America and will fight themselves free, Yugoslave style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vK5UkZrPcc
In Europe the multicultural regimes, now on their last legs, soon will follow their Eastern European communist brethren, who did bite the dust in 1991. Fortress Europe is already largely in place and only needs to be defended on a narrow strip of land on the Greek-Turkish border, where recently high fences and military guards were installed. Oh, and the European population is shifting to the right. Nobody is using ‘multiculturalism’ as something to wish for, not even politicians.
If they mean it is something different, but they picked up the message from the population and they are afraid, rightfully so.