Free birth certificates sought

Free birth certificates sought

MAKASSAR, South Sulawesi: The United Nations Children's Fund
(Unicef) said on Thursday children in Indonesia should be given
free birth certificates by the government.

Unicef representative to Indonesia Anthony Kennedy said that a
birth certificate, the first right protected by any country, was
an important document for people to deal with various affairs in
their life.

Puwanta Iskandar, Unicef representative in Makassar, praised
several regencies in South Sulawesi who had given free birth
certificates to children.

The Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) stated that only 30
percent of the country's population possessed birth certificates.

Indonesia ranks among the 19 worse countries where people do
not have birth certificates. --Antara