The four health problems were identified as high maternal mortality ratio, varied quality continuity of health service, regional gaps and limited access to health service, and uneven literacy and public trust.

SPRIN is an integrated approach connecting public education, increasing service quality and community mobilization in a sustainable national movement. The program manages women’s health priorities starting from teenage years, reproductive to pregnancy, and then to menopause.

“Indonesia is now in a crucial phase. Although there is progress, the burden of women’s health is still worrying,” POGI chairman Budi Wiweko told a press conference on Thursday, as quoted in a press release issued by POGI.

“Every day, 22 mothers on average died due to complications during pregnancy, delivery or the postpartum period. This means a mother leaves her family every hour.”

At the same time, Budi said that cervical cancer has become a silent killer with more than 20,000 deaths per year, or one woman dying every 25 minutes.

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“The majority of the cases can be prevented through HPV vaccination and routine screening,” he said.

“But both steps are not widely implemented, so more than 70 percent of the cases were found at the advanced stage.”

Indonesia still ranked third in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in terms of its maternal mortality ratio, with 189 deaths per 100,000 live births, with delivery safety, cervical cancer and women’s reproduction health the primary risks.

The National Medium-Term Development Plan 2025-2029 has set a target to reduce maternal mortality ratio to 77 deaths per live births, touting that when women are safe and healthy, the nation is also saved.

On the health service side, SPRIN has introduced SPRIN POGI Certified, a program standardizing science-based service quality standard to ensure quality consistency of health facilities and medical workers all over Indonesia.

“SPRIN POGI Certified is an important milestone to ensure that women’s health service standard are no longer dependent on location and luck,” Budi said.

“Every woman is eligible for respectful, safe and consistent service.”

The launch of SPRIN was also marked by the signing of long-term memoranda of understanding between POGI and the Jakarta provincial city administration, state- and region-owned enterprises, medical associations, pharmaceutical companies and other institutions.

The collaboration was held to ensure a sense of belonging among signatories on national targets related to women’s health and program continuity down to the grassroot level. Pilot programs will be held in several strategic provinces before full implementation is conducted on a national level. 

POGI is also collaborating with the Women’s Empowerment and Children Protection Ministry to strengthen women’s health and reproductive health services. The cooperation also underlines the importance of inter-religion collaboration beyond medical approach.

Through this cooperation, religious leaders are equipped with education, sermon materials and curated sets of knowledge to deliver messages of protection and health in accordance with the teachings of each religion.

Budi said that the entire collaboration efforts would end in a SPRIN Summit in 2026 to discuss and evaluate the movement’s progress, as well as launching new cross-sectoral cooperation. (nvn)

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