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The Indonesian Family Planning Programme: A Success Story for Women?
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In this paper, the authors examined the aims and methods of the family planning program in order to assess the extent and manner in which women interests are acknowledged in its objectives and whether in its implementation the program takes into account the needs of women both as recipients and as family planning workers.Abstract:
The Family Planning Program of Indonesia is constantly being hailed as a success story for its performance in reducing fertility rates in many parts of the country. This paper examines what this has meant for women taking womens rights to the control of their fertility as the necessary aim for all family planning programs and the safeguarding of their reproductive health as an obligation. In this paper the aims and methods of the program are examined separately in order to assess the extent and manner in which womens interests are acknowledged in its objectives and whether in its implementation the program takes into account the needs of women both as recipients and as family planning workers. The main conclusion of the paper is that the priorities style of implementation and service delivery of the program do not provide women with the means of regulating their fertility autonomously through access to freely chosen contraceptives and related services. In addition the paper concludes that the safeguarding and improvement of womens reproductive health is not among the concerns of the program either in principle or in practice. (authors)read more
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