THE EFFECT OF MATERNAL MORTALITY ON GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT IN INDONESIA

The health is an essential element for human to work. Improving health care contribute on quality of human capital in the future (Anand and Sen, 2000: 2038). Human capital is the value of learning and experience of someone at work who can improve productivity and income (Perkin, 2001: 206). Hence, the role of health is very important to improve the individual's income.
One of important aspect of health development is the maternal health. Indonesia has a relatively high maternal mortality ratio. Improve maternal health is 5th goal of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). One of its indicator is reduced by three quarters the maternal mortality ratio (MMR), between 1990 and 2015.
On the other hand, maternal health became an important factor in preparing for childbirth. Good Maternal health will also influence the birth of healthy babies. A healthy baby will determine the quality of human resources in the future (Wilhelmson and Gerdtham, 2006). Qualified human sources will also determine the quality of labor in promoting economic growth. This means that maternal health contributes to the quality of human capital, while the quality of human capital will determine the success of economic growth or growth of Gross Domestic Product .