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View all search resultsAccording to the National Population and Family Planning Board’s (BKKBN) latest figures, 28 million Indonesian couples receive contraception services. However, the board noticed a 20 to 30 percent decline in recipients from February to March, with variations among provinces.
To plan a family is as difficult as to plan other important things in life. Very few Indonesian families make good plans. Most people do not plan anything: no plan for starting a savings account to pay children’s college fees, no plan for paying health insurance in case one day a catastrophic illness strikes and even no plan about what age to first have sex, or have a first pregnancy, or a first birth.
The UN's 2019 World Population Prospects report projected that the global population would reach 9.7 billion people by 2050 from 7.7 billion in mid-2019, with Indonesia placed eighth out of the countries expected to contribute most to the increase.
In mid-November, 3,700 family planning advocates and representatives of governments, United Nations agencies, civil society organizations, academia, celebrities and promising youth leaders gathered in Kigali, Rwanda, to attend the fifth International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP).
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