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View all search resultsGet up & speak out: Young people give voice to youth SRHR rights
Who better to advocate for youth sexual and reproductive health and rights than young people? This is the rationale behind the "Get Up, Speak Out for Youth Rights!" (GUSO), an international program that involves youth at all stages and levels.
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Ni Luh Eka Purni Astiti was once a shy girl.
“I used to feel inferior when working with adults because of my lack of knowledge and experience,” recalled Eka, a public health graduate of Udayana University in Bali.
Today, Eka is a woman and very different from her younger self. She is now an eloquent youth activist, working on the front lines of youth sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) advocacy in Indonesia through the “Get Up, Speak Out for Youth Rights!” (GUSO) program.
“I gained my self-confidence when I joined the Get Up, Speak Out program and was appointed the youth country coordinator of the GUSO program in 2018,” she said.
Komang Sutrisna, chair of Aliansi Satu Visi (One Vision Alliance; ASV), a vast network of 20 civil society organizations in Indonesia, said the majority of adolescents in the country still had little to no access to accurate information on, and services for, sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Citing Health Ministry data from 2012, Komang said that 33.3 percent of girls and 34.5 boys below age 15 had already started dating. The data also revealed that 2.5 percent of girls and 19.1 percent of boys were sexually active.
“This data showed the wide information gap among adolescents on SRHR knowledge that resulted in so many problems during this tumultuous time,” he said.
