Indonesia represents the unique case for the study of
Family Planning/Reproductive Health strategies and
approaches. When the country started its program in
1970, it was economically poor. As the world's largest
archipelago, inhabited by a culturally and linguistically
diverse but predominantly Muslim population, it was a
setting that generally considered as unlikely to allow Family
Planning/Reproductive Health Program to succeed.
The signs of this success were evident by the mid 80s,
when Indonesia's demographic changes -- primarily the
significant reduction of births per women (Total Fertility
Rate), substantial increase of Contraceptive Prevalence
Rate amongst the Married-Women of Reproductive Age
and the decrease of the Population Growth Rate - started
to gain international recognition. The United Nations
honored the success and, in 1989, gave the Population
Award to the country “for outstanding contribution to the awareness of population
problems and to their solutions”.
The Population Award given by United Nations to Indonesia to honor its contribution
to the awareness of population problems and to their solutions has to large extent open
the world eyes for an international study on such a remarkable progress achieved by
Indonesia in the field of Population and Family Planning/Reproductive Health.
Along with efforts of promoting international cooperation in the field of population
and development, the President of the Republic of Indonesia at the Innagural Session of
the Tenth Conference of Heads of States or Government of Non-Aligned Countries in 1992
officially announced that Indonesia's Family Planning/Reproductive Health Program is
pleased to receive any country to come to Indonesia to share its experiences.
The Center for International Training and Collaboration is the trumpet of BKKBN to share the Indonesia's experiences on Population, Family Planning and Reproductive Health with other countries, through The International Training Program (ITP)
The ITP emphasizes the strong and unique features of a successful community level program. An effective means to share the family program and reproductive health is through demonstrating rather than teaching or training in the class. Therefore we call our program as a classroom without walls.
Activities conducted by The ITP include Observational Study Tours (OSTs), Internships, Short-term technical assistance to other countries, High level-visits, and Technical trainings. To do so, The ITP coordinates with other Indonesian institutions that also share their Population, Family Planning and Reproductive Health experiences.
The ITP course topics contemplate the focal point of Indonesian Population, Family Planning and Reproductive Health program. To date, the course topic underlines the issues of quality improvement, integrated services of family planning - reproductive health, and reproductive health - contraceptive commodity security.
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