Enforced family planning deplored<\/p>\n
YOGYAKARTA (JP): The National Family Planning Board (BKKBN)
\nchief, Khofifah Indar Parawansa, has called for an end to past
\npractices of coercing people to become family planning (KB)
\nacceptors, saying that it was a form of human rights abuse.<\/p>\n
\"We have to admit that in the past, repressive methods were
\nemployed to force a person into becoming an acceptor,\" Khofifah,
\nwho is also state minister of the empowerment of women, said on
\nMonday.<\/p>\n
She was speaking after swearing in senior officials at the
\nYogyakarta BKKBN office.<\/p>\n
A person should not be automatically given a contraceptive
\nshot before being presented with other options such as birth
\ncontrol pills, implants and intrauterine devices (IUDs), she
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
Khofifah said that her office had been active in discouraging
\nrepressive actions.<\/p>\n
Better training was being given to family planning officials
\nthroughout the country to make them realize that a person should
\nfirst be given thorough counseling before being admitted into a
\nfamily planning program, Khofifah added.<\/p>\n
Everybody should respect other people's reproductive rights
\naside from giving them the proper understanding that a small but
\nhigh quality family is better than a big, low quality family, the
\nminister said.<\/p>\n
\"A low quality family is a burden, not only on the family but
\nalso to society,\" Khofifah explained.<\/p>\n
Indonesia had been acknowledged in the past for its \"success\"
\nin reducing the its birth rate through a nationwide family
\nplanning program.<\/p>\n
In 1998, some 25,699,120 people were officially on the
\ngovernment's family planning scheme. The largest number, 34.7
\npercent, used injection methods while 28 percent used the pill
\nand 20.2 percent used IUDs.<\/p>\n
The remaining participants used condoms, implants and other
\nmethods. (swa\/10)<\/p>",
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