Decentralization and family planning in Indonesia: the opportunities and the challenges

Decentralization and family planning in Indonesia: the opportunities and the challenges
By
Nia Reviani
Staff of National Family Planning and Population Board, Jakarta-Indonesia

Decentralization of the Indonesian family planning program has contributed to considerable gains in family planning. However, there is indication that Indonesia’s family planning program remains stagnant due to limited access to reproductive and sexual health services This paper will discuss the facts of Decentralization family planning program in Indonesia, including the opportunities and challenges . The discussion will be based on the relevant literatures and the analysis of available resources that already exist in the communities, and supported by statistical data derived from some databases. Decentralization family planning program has offered some advantages such as improvement of efficiency and quality of care and increasing responsiveness of the local and private health system. But to accelerate family planning progress, there are some challenges that need to be addressed such as capability to provide appropriate and high quality services, improvement the quality of decentralization and programming at different levels and increasing the diversity of acceptable contraceptive methods