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Indonesia needs to improve education, create jobs for youth: UNFPA executive director
Natalia Kanem, the executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), shares her views on the challenges and opportunities of Indonesia’s abundant youth population.
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United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) executive director Natalia Kanem (Courtesy of UNFPA/-)
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em>November marked the 25th anniversary of the first global platform for population and development: the International Conference of Population and Development (ICPD) in Nairobi, Kenya. Indonesia, one of the conference’s signatories, has been implementing various development policies and programs for its 271 million-person population. Natalia Kanem, the executive director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), shared her views on Indonesia’s situation with Rita Widiadana. The following is an excerpt of the interview with The Jakarta Post.
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How have you found Indonesia during your brief visit here?
Indonesia has been a key partner of UNFPA for decades. There has been so much progress, and Indonesia has been a champion of the implementation of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Program of Action.
Indonesia is a leader of family planning (FP) and reaches out to women all over the country. This is a big success for Indonesia, implementing voluntary FP in a respectful and sensitive way.
It is an exciting moment to visit Indonesia, right after the 25th anniversary of the ICPD, to see how the government carries out various population and development programs to benefit people. It also coincides with the 70th anniversary of Indonesia-Denmark Relations. Denmark has been one of the major donors to allow the UNFPA to implement programs around the world, including in Indonesia. Together with our patron, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, we wanted to directly see how all the programs are being implemented on the ground.
