2014

country profile universal access to sexual and reproductive rights: indonesia

Indonesia is an archipelago of approximately 17,000 islands with a total population of 239 million people. The country is home to about 1340 ethnicities with different views on gender and sexuality issues and varying degrees of access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), including relevant healthcare services.

Access to SRH services varies from one area toanother, subject to socio-economic conditions, geographic distance, and cultural beliefs. The country’s reports on the International Convention on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action have documented the interlink ages between poverty and health as obstacles to improving sexuality and reproductive health services, as well as other obstacles related to ethnicity, differences in perceiving socio-cultural beliefs, and gender inequality. Besides these, attempts to reduce the high maternal mortality ratio (MMR) remain unsuccessful and still pose problems to improving women’s quality of life.

These obstacles create difficulties for NGOs to engage in advocacies for SRHR regulation and policy reforms after the downfall of the Soeharto government in 1998. The lack of a favourable environment for NGO participation in policy reforms affected progress in addressing universal access to SRHR for women and young people.

Vietnam

  • Centre for Creative Initiatives in Health and Population (CCIHP)

Sri Lanka

  • Bakamoono;
  • Women and Media Collective (WMC),
  • Youth Advocacy Network – Sri Lanka (YANSL)

Singapore

  • End Female Genital Cutting Singapore
  • Reproductive Rights (WGNRR)

Philippines

  • Democratic Socalist Women of the Philippines (DSWP);
  • Galang;
  • Healthcare Without Harm;
  • Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities;
  • Likhaan Centre for Women’s Health;
  • Nisa UI Haqq Fi Bangsamoro;
  • PATH Foundation Inc. (PFPI);
  • Women’s Global Network for
    Reproductive Rights (WGNRR)

Pakistan

  • Aahung, Centre for Social Policy Development (CSPD);
  • Forum for Dignity Initiative (FDI);
  • Gravity Development Organization; Green Circle Organization;
  • Indus Resources Center (IRC);
  • Idara-e-Taleem-O-Aaghai (ITA);
  • Rehnuma – Family Planning Association Pakistan;
  • Shelter
    Participatory Organisation;
  • Shirkat Gah;
  • The Enlight Lab

Nepal

  • Beyond Beijing Committee (BBC);
  • Blind Youth Association of Nepal;
  • Blue Diamond Society (BDS);
  • Nepalese Youth for Climate Action (NYCA);
  • Visible Impact;
  • Women’s Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC);
  • YPEER Nepal;
  • YUWA

Myanmar

  • Colourful Girls Organization;
  • Green Lotus Myanmar

Maldives

  • Hope for Women;
  • Society for Health Education (SHE)

Malaysia

  • Federation of Reproductive Health Associations of Malaysia (FRHAM);
  • Joint Action Group for Gender Equality (JAG);
  • Justice for Sisters (JFS);
  • Reproductive Health Association of
    Kelantan (ReHAK);
  • Reproductive Rights Advocacy Alliance Malaysia (RRAAM);
  • Sisters in Islam (SIS)

Lao PDR

  • Lao Women’s Union;
  • The Faculty of Postgraduate Studies at the University of Health
    Sciences (UHS)

Indonesia

  • Aliansi Satu Visi (ASV);
  • CEDAW Working Group;
  • Hollaback! Jakarta;
  • Institut Kapal Perempuan;
  • Kalyanamitra;
  • Komnas Perempuan;
  • Remaja Independen Papua/Independent Youth
    Forum Papua (FRIP/IYFP);
  • Perkumpulan Keluarga Berencana Indonesia (PKBI);
  • Perkumpulan Lintas Feminis Jakarta;
  • Perkumpulan Pamflet Generasi;
  • RUTGERS Indonesia;
  • Sanggar SWARA;
  • Women on Web;
  • Yayasan Kesehatan Perempuan (YKP); 
  • YIFOS Indonesia

India

  • CommonHealth;
  • Love Matters India;
  • Pravah;
  • Rural Women’s Social Education Centre (RUWSEC);
  • SAHAYOG;
  • Sahaj;
  • Sahiyo;
  • SAMA – Resource Group for Women and Health;
  • WeSpeakOut;
  • The YP Foundation (TYPF)

Morocco

  • Association Marocaine de Planification Familiale (AMPF),
  • Morocco Family Planning Association
country profile universal access to sexual and reproductive rights: indonesia

Indonesia is an archipelago of approximately 17,000 islands with a total population of 239 million people. The country is home to about 1340 ethnicities with different views on gender and sexuality issues and varying degrees of access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), including relevant healthcare services.

Access to SRH services varies from one area toanother, subject to socio-economic conditions, geographic distance, and cultural beliefs. The country’s reports on the International Convention on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action have documented the interlink ages between poverty and health as obstacles to improving sexuality and reproductive health services, as well as other obstacles related to ethnicity, differences in perceiving socio-cultural beliefs, and gender inequality. Besides these, attempts to reduce the high maternal mortality ratio (MMR) remain unsuccessful and still pose problems to improving women’s quality of life.

These obstacles create difficulties for NGOs to engage in advocacies for SRHR regulation and policy reforms after the downfall of the Soeharto government in 1998. The lack of a favourable environment for NGO participation in policy reforms affected progress in addressing universal access to SRHR for women and young people.

Maldives

  • Hope for Women
  • Society for Health Education (SHE)

Mongolia

  • MONFEMNET National Network