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The justification of this paper is to see howIndonesia's socio-cultural, religious and political settingssurrounding reproductive health education and services foryoung people have evolved and whether any progresses havebeen made since the i994 lCPD Population Program of Action.Why do the Indonesian government still demonstrate a veryconservative approach towards sexuality even thoughincreasing numbers of STDs/HW/AIDS, premarital sex andunsafe premarital abortion are more apparent among youngpeople? Why is reproductive health still absent from the publicpolicy agenda? And why has these issues been forgotten-hidden ' and nat being properly addressed? Discussion will alsobe focus on how the government still treats young Indonesianas a non-sexual being. This paper is based on the l994/95Sexuality and Marriage Values Survey and field research inindonesia during August 2000-March 2001. The survey wasfunded by the Demography and Sociology Program, AustralianNational University while the Australian ?s Department ofEducation, Training and Youth Affairs through the MerdekaFellowship program sponsored the second part of the datacollection. |
