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Priority Projects in Indonesia
Global Connections - Youth-led Global Learning Program
Connecting secondary school students in Australia with poor and marginalised young people overseas to inspire each other to act as global citizens and to reach their own potentials.
Improving Early Childhood Care and Development in Indonesia
Reaching children aged 0-6 years and their parents through high-impact, low-cost community-managed Early Childhood Care and Development. Plan is piloting these activities through local community...
Improving childhood nutrition in rural communities in Indonesia
Reducing child malnutrition by working with parents, caregivers and health workers to better monitor and support children under five years of age. This project works to strengthen health services...
Our plan in Indonesia
Plan is working at the grassroots level in Indonesia to help communities make real and lasting change, so that their children have the opportunity to reach their full potential.
Plan began working in Indonesia in 1969 and has programs in six provinces which aim to address the following issues affecting children:
- Limited access to and poor quality health services
- Limited access to water and sanitation
- Low awareness of early childhood care needs
- Low quality, expensive primary education
- High unemployment
- Limited participation of children in decision-making
- Denial of rights to survival and development and risk of abuse
- Vulnerability to risk and disaster situations
Plan's programs and strategies to address these issues include:
Health
Plan Indonesia works to access health services through revitalisation of community health posts and an effective school health program, including reproductive health, HIV and AIDS awareness programs for adolescents.
Early childhood
Plan Indonesia runs a school improvement program, works to strengthen and scale up its home and centre based early childhood and care development programs.
Financial security
Poverty is a significant problem in Indonesia, with an estimated 52% of Indonesians living on less than US$2 a day. Plan Indonesia helps families increase and manage their resources and focuses on food and nutrition security, income generation, sustained economic growth and small business development.
Child rights
Plan Indonesia promotes universal birth registration of Indonesia's more than 76 million children and child participation in decision-making and works with groups of children such as children in conflict with the law, street children and sexually exploited children.
Risk reduction and disaster response
Plan Indonesia has a child-focused disaster risk reduction program which continues its disaster response and rehabilitation programs in the tsunami affected areas of Aceh and in the earthquake affected area of Yogyakarta.
See Plan's work in progress
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Country Facts
| Country | Indonesia | Australia |
|---|---|---|
| Flag |  |
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| Population | 220 Million | 21 Million |
| Language | Bahasa Indonesia | English |
| Capital | Jakarta | Canberra |
| GDP per capita (USD/year) |
1,184 | $37,300 |
| Life expectancy | 67.2 | 81.5 |
| Access to safe drinking water |
77% | 100% |
| Literacy | 90.4% | 100% |
| Source: | United Nations: Millennium Development Goals Report 2006 | |
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