Still lots of Indonesians
Written by Aris Ananta
A 40-year-old West Java villager who goes by the single name Deni has only two children, a considerable change from his own parents. He has seven siblings. He thus illustrates the change that has taken place over the last four decades in Indonesia as the country’s family planning program and changing cultural mores have caused birth rates to fall dramatically.
As World Population Day approaches on July 11, Indonesia’s extraordinary success in cutting its population growth is a lesson for a world whose total numbers are on course to soar to as high as 9.5 billion by 2050. The key to Indonesia’s success has been its National Family Planning Coordination Board, known by its Indonesian initials BKKBN, which worked together with the United States Agency for International Development to produce the results.
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(The author is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore)
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