tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16826764505790181592024-03-14T01:05:47.106+07:00UNICEF IndonesiaUNICEF Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17241673124591138431noreply@blogger.comBlogger208125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1682676450579018159.post-55918801889469531372019-04-16T10:39:00.002+07:002019-04-22T17:35:23.357+07:00Health Sector Review, Bappenas<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">On 4 April 2019 nearly 300 experts
from the Government of Indonesia, academia, professional associations, civil
society and development agencies gathered in Jakarta for the dissemination of
the Health Sector Review (HSR) 2018 report. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In the presence of these key
stakeholders, </span><span style="color: #00292e; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dr. Ir.
Subandi M.Sc., Deputy of Human Development, Society and Culture, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">at
the Indonesia Ministry of Planning [Bappenas] launched the HSR 2018 report. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><em><span style="color: #44546a;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Handover Ceremony of the 2018 Health
Sector Review, from Mr. Subandi, Deputy of Human Development and Social Culture
and Bappenas and Ms. Debora Comini, Country Representative of UNICEF –
Indonesia, 4</span><sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: x-small;"> April 2019<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></em></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">UNICEF Indonesia’s Country
Representative, Ms Debora Comini, made opening remarks on behalf of the
development partners.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The HSR reviews progress in the health
sector and makes recommendations regarding policies and programs for the coming
five years and beyond. UNICEF hosted the secretariat for the review and led
inputs from development partners.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">The consultation process spanned 18
months – engaging 12 line ministries, 80 government institutions, professional
organizations, academics, experts and resource persons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the Government of Indonesia’s stewardship, the HSR will help facilitate the
country’s continued leadership towards Universal Health Coverage and the
Sustainable Development Goal agenda. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
UNICEF Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17241673124591138431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1682676450579018159.post-23188404647599732482019-02-15T09:56:00.000+07:002019-02-26T10:21:14.085+07:00Innovative technology speeds up tracing of children separated by tsunami in Indonesia<br />
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after the disaster, grieving families stuck posters on shop windows and lamp
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electricity and telecommunication services were back on, many posted their
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challenge to get a comprehensive picture of how many children are missing.
There are more requests to reunite children and parents than information on
children found,” said Febraldi, the team leader from the Ministry of Social
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supporting the Government of Indonesia to set up 12 posts in the affected areas
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">These
locations are also being used as safe spaces for children to play. After
distributing 2,700 posters, and publishing social media posts with their
hotline numbers, the team received 117 tracing requests.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Enter an
innovative tool that speeds up family tracing and reunification. It’s called
Primero, an open source software platform that helps social workers manage
protection-related data.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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more convenient and mobile. It has a wider reach. It’s quite simple and we can
tap information from Palu and other areas,” said I Made Suwancita, UNICEF
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social workers from the Ministry and aid groups have been trained to enter data
on Primero’s Indonesian-language web and mobile versions. They input the
missing child’s name, gender, date of birth, address as well as the parents’
basic information, and a short chronology of how they were separated. </span></span></div>
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and scoured the postings of citizen groups such as Info Palu on Facebook,” said
Fadlun Badjerey a social worker. “My neck and back ached; my vision blurred
when we huddled over our mobiles and worked past midnight. But it’s worth it.”</span></span></div>
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survived the tsunami and earthquake <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">on 28</span> October<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">. © UNICEF Indonesia/2018/ Arimacs Wilander</span></span></div>
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Indonesia experienced a major tsunami was on Boxing Day in 2004. At that time,
social workers and aid groups grappled with a bigger caseload, but only had pen
and paper to track all the data. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Primero has
been used in other countries during conflicts and in the aftermath of natural
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it was originally designed for child-protection related data management in
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UNICEF-initiated tech innovations in the country include U-report. Using Facebook
Messenger, WhatsApp and Short Messaging Service, the platform was launched in
2014 for polling, empowering 85,000 young people to be heard by policy makers
and providing them with access to reliable information. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">In 2015,
UNICEF started to pilot RapidPro technology for health workers to use to
collect, monitor and disseminate health information such as childhood
immunization coverage, through text messaging.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">In Central
Sulawesi, Made himself has been inundated with requests from Government partners
to adapt U-Report and RapidPro for use with social and health workers. It is
now easier to track how many children attend the child centres every afternoon
to play and receive psychosocial services. Field workers have also been trained
to enter data for school safety assessment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Posts on
social media using U-Report, communicating directly to the people in the
affected areas and beyond, helped reunite seven children from their loved ones.</span></span></div>
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Primero, 28 children (16 boys; 12 girls) have so far been reunified with family
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #222222; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">These
innovations, led by UNICEF, are proving to be time-saving and efficient tools
that save and protect children. </span></span></div>
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UNICEF Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17241673124591138431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1682676450579018159.post-26436397949165903392018-11-26T11:13:00.004+07:002018-11-26T11:13:43.180+07:00UNICEF Indonesia Promotes Public-Private Partnership in Immunizing Children <div style="text-align: center;">
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successfully immunizing 9 million children against Measles and Rubella in Java
last year, East Java Provincial Administration and UNICEF are involved in
another massive immunization campaign in East Java. The provincial
administration aims to immunize 11 million children from 1 to 19-year-old
against diphtheria. The drive is called Outbreak Response Immunization (ORI)
against Diphtheria. Last year, the province recorded an outbreak that killed
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the campaign requires the same child to be vaccinated three times throughout
the year 2018. The first vaccination is sometime between February and March,
the second is between June and July, the final one is ongoing: November to
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forces behind the campaign is also getting bigger. Building up from the
momentum of last year’s Measles and Rubella campaign’s success that gained full
support of, among others, media company Jawa Pos Group, Indonesia’s largest
Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulama, the East Java Council of Ulemas,
University of Airlangga, this time the immunization drive is more members to
join the band: Entrepreneurs Organization of Indonesia East. The organization
consists 13,000 young businesspeople who employ around 3.4 million workers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Univers",sans-serif;">Getting more
and more excited and determined, on Thursday, 15 November 2018, the Provincial
Health Office of East Java, Airlangga University and UNICEF field office in
Surabaya, called on everyone, including the mayors and heads of districts
across the province to ensure the success of final round of Outbreak Response
Immunization on Diphtheria. The first and second rounds had managed to
vaccinate over 10,5 million children or 95% of the target. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was made on Thursday and was also witnessed by a well-known economist and
statistician from Technology Institute of Surabaya, Mr. Kresnayana Yahya. His
presentation, based on health data he gathered in the last two years, convinced
the business audience that investing in child health promise high returns. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Univers",sans-serif;">Airlangga
University also appraised the Head of Trenggalek District Dr. Emil Dardak. The
incoming vice governor, and his wife, a well-known artist Arumi Bachsin, played
a vital role in ensuring the success of 2017 Measles and Rubella immunization.
For his consistency in promoting child health Airlangga University call the
vice governor elect as “Bupati Sahabat Anak”. Deputy Representative UNICEF to
Indonesia, Robert Gass, handed the appreciation certificate to Dr. Emil
witnessed by Head of PHO, Dr. Kohar Hari Santoso. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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recognize Ibu Teresia when, from across the street, a stocky woman with her
hair neatly tied waved her hands toward me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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which was barely five minutes away from the corners of Jalan Alak in Kupang
District. She asked me to keep my shoes on, as she was worried my socks would
pick up the dust from the cement floor. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">She then ask permission to dressing up before doing the interview, she returned in a yellow shirt with ‘Citizens for AIDS’ on her left shoulder and she looks charming with the red lips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(2). It hasn’t been a year since Ibu Teresia adopted the girl – who is HIV
positive. Ibu Teresia, as if she could read my mind, she said, “Her mother died when I was working with patients at a hospital. Alinea infected by HIV since she was born."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Ibu Teresia said that she fell in love with Alinea at the first time she saw her lying on the bed next to an HIV-positive woman who was fighting for her life. Ibu Teresia
helped to changed the diaper of Alinea's mother, on that moment Alinea's mom asked
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Teresia and the family decided to adopting Alinea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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home, Ibu Teresia educates her children and husband about how to take care of
Aliena – with love and compassion. Ibu Teresia has five children, she always remind them to let her now if there is physical injury happen to Alinea.<span style="background: white;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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Teresia has been working with 8 HIV positive people since
2014. Not only make sure her own household is taken care of, she
also actively visits and sits with HIV patients to help them get their
treatment at the hospital. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">“People with HIV need our
support and especially the motivation from their own family.” said Ibu Teresia. You can tell by her
stories, she always puts everyone else first.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that Ibu Teresia assists is pregnant. This poses a health threat to the baby in
her womb, as there is a real risk of mother-to-child transmission. This is also
why all expecting mothers need to take HIV test during pregnancy. Today, the
test has been made a part of routine pregnancy check-up throughout all
healthcare facilities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">“These babies are
innocent. They know absolutely nothing of what happened to their mothers. I
want to help preventing them from being infected,” said Ibu Teresia, after
showing me some healthcare guidelines she always carries with her during home
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">In Kupang district today
more than 1,000 people are HIV-positive (based on the data from healthcare
facilities). UNICEF and the local government are working hand in hand to make
sure that the healthcare system can reach all pregnant mothers and prevent more
children from being infected – because no child should be born with preventable
diseases. The prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) program is
expected to support by the work of AIDS volunteers like Ibu Teresia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ibu Teresia’s crucial role is to make sure every pregnant mother she assists
regularly takes their treatment. “I really hope there will be no other babies
born with the virus,” she said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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drugs are prescribed to every pregnant mother with HIV to reduce the viral load
as much as possible and therefore lower the mother-to-child transmission risk.
However, regular blood and HIV tests are required for a child born from an
HIV-positive mother – since birth up until the child is 18 years old – to make
sure there is zero transmission.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">As I reflected on Ibu
Teresia’s dedication to others, a childhood song came to mind which is “Kasih
Ibu” Song.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It tells about mother's love is infinity, everlasting and expecting nothing in return. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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adoptive mother, Ibu Teresia is a light that will always brighten the path
of Alinea, her five children as well as other kids in Kupang she intends to
save. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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returned to the provincial capital city of Palu in Indonesia’s Central
Sulawesi. A month after a powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake and tsunami devastated
this once palm-fringed bayside area, 11-year-old girl Sophia Angelica Majid
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with nine other family members and neighbours. Her bed is a mattress, protected
by a mosquito net. Her morning routine now includes
showering or washing her face and hands with soap; brushing her teeth with water
from a large container at the end of a field dotted with white and khaki green canvas
temporary shelters. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a pen, she started to get ready for her school day. Her mother Evni Majid bid
her goodbye as she busied herself filling in a city form to record that she, her
husband, Sophia and her two brothers were safe. Though it would be forever
imprinted in her mind how they ran desperately to get away from the waves that
engulfed large swathes of the shoreline. Sophia’s quick reaction made her grab
two mobile phones. They became the family’s lifeline in the following chaotic
days, trying to find food, drink and information on where the rest of the
family sought refuge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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school amidst the debris, cars and motorbikes rumbled in the streets as her
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gone,” Sophia gasped, as she arrived to SDN Inpres II Talise and gazed for the
first time the surreal landscape at the back of her school, which faced the
waterfront. “It’s heartbreaking. This used to be a neat row of school
buildings. There was a large housing complex over there. There used to be
durian fruit sellers (on the coastline). Now it’s all gone.”</span></div>
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at Sophia’s school only 70 from all the six grades showed up that day. However,
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emergency supplies through an airbridge from a neighbouring island of Borneo.
Sophie’s school was one of the first to receive the 450 school tents and 300
school-in-a-box that UNICEF has committed to deliver to over 1,400 affected
schools, more than184,000 children and nearly 13,000 teachers. UNICEF also
successfully advocated a standard-setting first as the Government procured
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resume school from 8 to 11 AM in the morning, with an hour dedicated to
psychosocial support – singing, playing games, talking in a group or one-on-one
with the teachers about whatever is on their mind. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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regular occurrence. Many parents fear that after surviving thus far, their
lives may still be changed for the worse. Officials are still confirming the
total number of children who have already regained access to education. They
will also step up efforts to clear up broken furniture, mangled metal pieces,
shards of glass from the school grounds. Another challenge for the coming
months is to set up latrines and handwashing facilities in the school tents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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not-quite-yet noon sun signalled that classes were over. The tent was
considerably cooler as the teachers raised the wall flaps to allow air to
circulate inside the 72-meter square room. The children – including Sophia -
lined up to receive a UNICEF white bag with exercise books, pens, rulers, an
eraser, a sharpener and crayons. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">“Education is for every child.
There are hundreds and thousands of children affected by the earthquake and
tsunami here. It’s time for them to go back to school and get a sense of
normalcy in their lives,” said Yusra Tebe, UNICEF Emergency Education
Specialist. He added that with the onset of a monsoon, in some areas their
hardships may be compounded by more landslides.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of its roof, wooden walls, doors. Only a cement foundation is now left behind,
marking the four rooms of her house. She looks through the wreckage to try and
find some of her belongings, including her school uniform, shoes or sandals
without any luck. She manages to find a white frilly dress belonging to Tasha
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Indonesia leading the response, UNICEF was ready to support in the critical
hours and days after an emergency in Central Sulawesi. A six-month plan has
been completed. UNICEF now stands ready to support the Government, partners and
the community, as the emergency response moves into early recovery. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Iqbal As Sywie parked his motorbike at the Central Sulawesi
Office of Social Affairs and half ran to the blue tent where the Child
Protection Joint Secretariat located. “Is he here yet?” he asked Astrid Gonzaga
Dionisio, a UNICEF Child Protection Specialist staff who shook her head and
smiled, “He’ll be here, Pak, take a deep breath.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Iqbal, 33, smiled and looked at his mother, Marta. Iqbal is the father of Mufli, 10, and Fikri,
7. Both sons went missing after the earthquake and tsunami hit the cities of
Palu and Donggala on 28 September 2018. “They are good children, they kiss my
hand before going to school and <i>mengaji</i>
(Quran reciting course, a common after-school activity for children of Islamic
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He reported the missing children to the Child Protection
Joint Secretariat Post. The social workers filed the report and shared it with
colleagues in other posts in Central Sulawesi. When disaster strikes, children
are often separated from their parents or immediate families and in many cases,
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children is estimated to be 300, while the number of registered missing
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The Social Ministry’s social workers (Satuan Bakti Pekerja
Sosial or Sakti Peksos) in collaboration with UNICEF provided a host of support
for children affected by the Central Sulawesi disaster. From psycho-social
support to help children cope with the traumatic experience to family tracing
and reunification (FTR) to reunify separated families. Twelve posts will be set
up in disaster-hit areas to identify children who are separated or
unaccompanied. Similar posts have been set up in Makassar to register separated/unaccompanied
children moving out of Palu. <o:p></o:p></div>
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After days of tracing, social workers found a child matching
the description of Fikri in Morowali Utara, a district located eight hours away
from Palu. After a series of cross-checking and a thorough identification
process, it was confirmed that Fikri had been found. Today, the elated family
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Iqbal, his mother and some members of his extended family
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“Masya Allah (whatever Allah will), Fikri, you are alive,”
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Fikri was playing outside the house with his older brother,
Mufli (10), when tsunami swept them away. He was stranded on a pedestrian walk
and rescued by a local person who was being evacuated to Morowali Utara. The
situation in Palu at that time was still very chaotic, the person decided to
bring Fikri with him while trying to get medical help on the way. He filed a
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“This is a miracle. It makes me and the social workers happy
every time we are successful in reuniting a child with their families,” the
Director of Child Rehabilitation at the Ministry of Social Affairs Nahar (it is
common for Indonesians to have only one name) said. <o:p></o:p></div>
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UNICEF Indonesia Child Protection Specialist Naning Puji
Julianingsih said that family tracing and reunification is important because a
child should be with their family. “The best environment for a child is with
their own immediate or extended families. Institutional care or family-based
adoption should be the last options,” Naning said. <o:p></o:p></div>
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UNICEF recently introduced digital-based innovation named
Primero application. Data of separated children found will automatically be
matched with missing children report. UNICEF currently works with Social
Ministry to conduct a training for social workers whose main task is to trace
and reunify separated children with their families. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“I can’t tell you how I feel right now, I want to meet with
the person who rescued my son and thanked him in person,” Iqbal said. He still
had not heard any news of Mufli but he remained hopeful. His mother, Marta,
touched her son’s hand and said, “Wherever he is, I hope he (Mufli) is alive
and with good people,” she said. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“What a brave little girl you are,” said one of the nurses before she injected life-saving Measles and Rubella (MR) vaccines on Jupe’s upper left arm. Within seconds Jupe walked out the room and shook her head furiously when asked by her ‘aunties’ neighbours whether she felt pain from the injection. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Buoyed by Jupe’s confidence, other kids followed her steps, including eight-year old Gloria Titahena who didn’t flinch her eyes when the injection needle rested on her bony upper arm. With a timid smile, Gloria then posed for a photograph while holding a sign in local language that says, “<i>I’m brave, I just had a rubella vaccination ”. </i>Another kid, five-year old Armendo Fransesco, a cheerful boy with shoulder-length curly hair, held up another sign that says, “<i>Want to be healthy? Have a Rubella vaccination”</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s been an eventful day for the children of Waimahu Passo in Ambon, capital of the Moluccas province. On this recent September day, around 23 kids have been registered to receive MR vaccines, as part of a nationwide second phase campaign to immunize 31.9 million children. The first phase was done in the main island of Java in 2017, targeting around 35 million children. Lying at the eastern part of Indonesia, Ambon is part of the famed Moluccas islands, once a sought-after colonial destination due to their spices.</div>
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As of early September, around 50 per cent of children aged above nine months to below 15 years in Ambon city, or around 50 thousand have been vaccinated against MR. The port city is targeting around 114 thousand children whilst the provincial target stands at around 546 thousand.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Waimahu Passo is not your usual neighborhood. The community of makeshift houses was built out of a dark chapter in Ambon’s history when it was engulfed in communal violence in 1999. All of the 300 residents living in this crammed zone lost their homes and belongings when mayhem gripped Ambon.<o:p></o:p></div>
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19 years on, the displaced community has made Waimaho Passo their home, with many finding jobs in the informal sector as vegetable sellers or motorcycle taxis.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“At first we informed community leaders about the government’s plan, then we visited the communities a couple of times, informing them about the danger of MR. So far it’s been a great,” said Rosa Penturi, Head of Yayasan Pelangi Maluku, her left hand is covered with a sock puppet. Rosa has been giving puppet performances and sing-a-long sessions to ease children’s tension.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“It helps up building the trust with the communities…. this community doesn’t necessarily have the time to bring their kids to Puskesmas…we have to be pro-active in visiting them” said Dr Susanti, adding that they had held several immunization sessions in the same neighbourhood before.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Moving inward to Ambon city center, to the densely populated area of Gang Buntu in Honipopu, a group of marginalized children gathered one afternoon to share their MR vaccination experiences. One of them was 13-year old Mutiara Palappesi, a grade eight student who received MR vaccination at her school, Alhilal Junior High School.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mutia’s mother used to be a street sweeper before staying home to look after her 5-month old sister. Her father is now the sole breadwinner, working as a street sweeper and rubbish collector, bringing home cardboards that he can sell to junkmen. During a conversation with Mutia, it was clear to see that she was well informed about MR. Though she may not know the technical terms, she was quite well versed in outlining the symptoms of MR.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But a sign of innocence was quite apparent when asked about her future goal, “ I want to become a PNS (a civil servant)… I like seeing PNS people, because they are always on the move and they wear nice uniform.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<em>By Dolly Dupe and Ermi Ndoen</em> <br />
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<br />Eleven-year old Audhyni closed her tiny eyes as her round face contorted with terror. The Grade Six student was seconds away from receiving the life-saving measles and rubella (MR) vaccine as part of the Indonesian Government’s mass vaccination campaign against MR. <br />
<br />A teacher who sat next to Audhyni wrapped her arms around her waist for comfort. <br />
<br />But as soon as the nurse was done with the injection; a sense of relief lifted Audhyni’s spirit. <br />
<br />“It’s not painful at all,” she said smiling. “It felt like an ant was biting me,” she added to the laugh of teachers and other students who had thronged the classroom in Kupang International Montessori School (KIMS), in the provincial capital of Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT). <br />
<br />Within minutes Audhyni rushed to a nearby wall and dipped her hands into a bucket of paint. She then pressed them firmly onto the wall – leaving behind colourful handprints on the white background. <br />
<br />“I am a hero now - We are the heroes of Rubella”, she said with pride, showing her painted hands to her friends and teachers. <br />
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<br />Lying in the southeast side of Indonesia, NTT is one of the 28 provinces where phase 2 of the vaccination campaign is taking place, in August and September 2018. More than 1.7 million children in NTT Province are being targeted in this mass immunization drive, including Audhyni and her friends. <br />
<br />The campaign to vaccinate all children from measles and rubella began last year in six provinces of the island of Java. Phase 1 was a huge success, with all 35 million children receiving the life-saving vaccines. Once phase 2 is completed this year, around 67 million Indonesians are expected to be vaccinated against measles and rubella. <br />
<br />MR vaccines not only protect children developing measles and rubella themselves, but also protect their future children from congenital defects caused by the rubella virus during pregnancy. These include hearing problems, visual impairment, cardiac abnormalities and intellectual disabilities. According to WHO, Indonesia was one of the top ten countries in the world with the most number of measles incidents as of 2015. <br />
<br />The students, teachers and parents of KIMS school were all very eager to take part in the vaccination drive, having heard about the danger of measles and rubella. “We want to support the MR Campaign because it is a programme from the Government, and we want Indonesian children, especially our own children to be free from measles and rubella”, said Ms Dolly, the school principal. <br />
<br />“When KIMS got the letter from the puskesmas [Health Centre], we forwarded it [to the parents],” she said “From the day we received the letter, we started sharing information with our students and answering any questions from them”. <br />
<br />To facilitate information sharing, the school then set up a group discussion on whatsapp. “We tried to answer all the parents’ questions. We only shared information from trusted media and we encouraged them to join their children during the vaccination”. <br />
<br />Dolly and her team of teachers also went a step further to help encourage the students to have fun during what might otherwise be a scary time. “We used handprints [to make a] ‘Heroes Wall’ as appreciation for their fearlessness in facing the injection. It was also a way to distract them from their pain and, last but not least, we wanted to have fun on that day, which happened to fall on Friday, traditionally our fun activities’ day.”<br />
<br />Dolly and the other teachers used the slogan ‘We are Rubella’s Heroes’ as their school’s statement to encourage parents, children and their communities to join the MR campaign. <br />
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<br />“As we can see from the pictures, even though the kids were terrified, they took the shot and after a couple of minutes they were eager to do the handprinting and forgot about the pain!”<br />
<br />The fun activities have even prompted other students who missed the vaccination due to ill health and other reasons, to ask for a follow up visit so they can put their handprints on the wall too. <br />
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<strong>SDGs Begin With Children</strong><br />
In her foreword, our Representative Gunilla Olsson mentions several programmes that you can read about or watch some great short videos, by clicking the links below.<span style="font-family: "univers light" , "univers light"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "univers light" , "univers light"; font-size: xx-small;"><br />
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We worked hard this year to give young people a voice and hear their views. Over 110,000 young people are now dialoguing with each other and decision makers (through the platform 'U-Report') to promote improved investments in children's wellbeing. Read about some of their results here:<br />
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<a href="http://unicefindonesia.blogspot.com/2017/11/pioneering-survey-asks-8-12-year-old.html" target="_blank">Pioneering survey asks 8-12-year-old Indonesians: what's life like?</a><br />
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A new report on data on monetary and multidimensional child poverty, produced together with the Central Bureau of Statistics, highlights inequities across the country. The report underpins the introduction of universal child grants by local governments in Aceh and Papua.<br />
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UNICEF Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17241673124591138431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1682676450579018159.post-15783633774872745392018-07-23T16:59:00.000+07:002018-09-13T11:55:36.189+07:00The Magic of School Libraries in Papua <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
by Joel Bacha, Accelerator Project Director, Room to Read<br />
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Getting off the plane in Sorong in March, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I was there to visit schools involved in the Australian Government-funded initiative: Rural and Remote Education Initiative for Papuan Provinces Program. Whatever lay ahead though, I was excited to see some of the adaptations the UNICEF team and partners had made to our school library methodology to meet the needs of schools in rural and remote areas with fewer resources. <br />
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Room to Read has had the pleasure of sharing our methodologies with UNICEF through our partner Yayasan Literasi Anak Indonesia (YLAI), based in Bali. Through our collaboration together, the UNICEF team and partners have developed 77 children’s books for the children of Papua and established libraries in 24 schools across 6 districts. It is this collaboration that laid the foundation for an incredible visit to Papua. <br />
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Over the course of two days, we visited four schools. We traveled on bumpy, windy roads and across bridges hovering over rocky forest-covered ravines. Near Sorong, we visited SD Inpres 55 Klamono about an hour outside of the city in a semi-rural area and SD Inpres 7 Makbon about three more hours out in a much more remote part of the district. In the Jayapura area, we visited SD YPK Amai on the coast and SD YPK Wambenain the hills. <br />
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What struck me first were the children who were visiting the libraries – the smiles on their faces as they walked over to the shelves, chose a book and then sat down on the floor to read intently. When asking a 3rd grader at SD Inpres 7 Makbon what he likes about the library he answered, “there are so many books to choose from, I can read about anything. Even magic.” This is the same level of joy we often witness among children in other countries – Nepal, Cambodia and Tanzania, for example – when visiting the libraries in their schools. Similarly, in Papua, some schools had book check out systems set up for children to borrow books for one week at a time. <br />
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The main difference with the libraries in Papua were the resources provided by UNICEF. To promote sustainability, UNICEF provided schools only with the training and the storybook collection. It was then up to the school communities to provide the other resources. There, the schools had to get creative – many found ways to use their existing shelving to house the books, most schools purchased notebooks to create their checkout system and other schools involved persons from the local community to paint murals on the walls to transform the library into a bright and vibrant child-friendly reading space. <br />
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The other stark difference that one will notice in all the schools we visited is that the libraries are functioning in a school system with very high levels of teacher and principal absenteeism. School absenteeism is a huge challenge in Papua and an issue that UNICEF and partners are working with the local government to address. In one of the schools near Jayapura, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade teachers were absent on the day we visited. On this day, these students had their textbooks open in their classrooms and were studying on their own without a teacher. To complement, the school security guard opened the library for the children to use during breaks. In this particular school, the magic of the library offered another safe child-friendly learning space for children to use when their teachers were absent from school. <br />
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Having been sharing strategies to support early grades literacy in Indonesia with Monika Nielsen since early 2015, it was wonderful to finally see some of those results in action. With the UNICEF program now in its third year, a trip to Papua to visit the program was a must. <br />
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globally, in the area of literacy, Room to Read collaborates with local communities, partner organizations and governments in 14 countries to ensure that primary school children can become independent readers. In Indonesia, Room to Read is currently sharing the lessons we have learned with Indonesia NGOs and local publishers to support two areas of the early grades literacy agenda: 1) fostering a habit of reading by establishing high-functioning school libraries and conducting effective reading activities in schools; and 2) increasing the amount of reading material for children by developing age-appropriate and culturally relevant storybooks. As the UNICEF program in Papua focuses on literacy instruction in Grades 1, 2 and 3 classrooms, at its core, our programs are highly complementary. </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09188504767721192029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1682676450579018159.post-20805275352929032912018-03-05T10:56:00.002+07:002018-08-14T16:02:10.826+07:00Yosua finds his voice<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Erratic rains were causing rice crops either to wither, or to drown, and with the drop in yields, many families could no longer afford school fees. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“My father said we had to fight for my education,” Yosua says in his home village of Panggungrejo in southern Sumatra Island. “So I stayed in school.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yosua is no stranger to hard work – or hardship. For years, he’s been getting up at dawn to help his father with livestock, returning after school to tend to the paddies. And when his mother died of cancer a few years ago, he even took on some of the cooking duties. But while these experiences leave him strong-willed and independent-minded, he is shy and, at times, unsure of himself in groups.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When Yosua heard about ‘Adolescent Circles’, a project focusing on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change, supported by UNICEF and implemented by ChildFund and local partner LPAMAS -- he was intrigued.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“I want to help fix the environment here,” he says. “And to become more confident…I want to become a changemaker.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">About a year since the Circle began, he is well on his way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Adolescent Circle offers a space for young people to build core competencies like problem solving, stress management, self-esteem, and empathy, all while brainstorming solutions to the problems they deem pressing; then, it provides a forum for these young people to present their prototype solutions to community members. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Across Indonesia, there are 58 Adolescent Circle groups both in and out of schools, all of which aim to empower young people to speak up and be heard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“With the rice harvests dropping, many families don’t have enough money. They can’t support their children’s education,” Yosua explains. “We want to make sure all children can go to school.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The group began pulling together ideas, and Yosua emerged as one of the more vocal participants. Months of meetings culminated in a documentary that captured their anxiety about the future. The film set the tone for the unveiling of the prototype they devised.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yosua delivered the prototype at a village development forum: Why not use village funding to build a rice storehouse? That way families could store some as insurance for hard times. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“If a family needs money to keep their children in school, they could sell some of the rice stored there,” he says. “And if there is an economic crisis, we would have some backup.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yosua is hopeful the storehouse will be considered. And indeed, there is growing interest in listening to young people, even at the highest levels of local government.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“We ought to start seeing children as the subjects [of policy], not just objects themselves,” says Sujadi Sadaat, the regent in Pringsewu, Yosua’s home district. “Criticizing us [adults] is an important part of their development into adulthood.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today, Yosua is more sure of himself, and looks people in the eye. He is broadening his ideas and thinking about something else that could improve the village.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“People always say that books are the ‘windows to the world’, but we don’t have a library in Panggungrejo,” he says, “so we don’t have any windows.”</span><br />
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UNICEF Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17241673124591138431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1682676450579018159.post-45349105030765404392018-02-26T15:24:00.000+07:002018-05-07T08:30:16.508+07:00‘I was one of the lucky ones’: a politician steps out on child marriage<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s a reliable cycle that makes West Sulawesi a top producer of chocolate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But here, 4 flying hours east of Jakarta, a separate, social cycle, is watering a bitter harvest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Every day, 375 girls are married in Indonesia,” says Amanda Bissex, UNICEF Indonesia Chief of Child Protection. “Every one of these marriages deprives girls of their right to a safe and protected childhood.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One in six girls in West Sulawesi marry before turning 18. Ibu Suraidah, who heads the Mamuju District Parliament (DPRD) on the province’s western coast, knows well the toll such marriages take: As a 16-year-old back in 2001, she became a child bride herself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It began with a furtive, afterschool relationship with a man five years older. Before long, things got serious, and Suraidah found herself pregnant. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Overnight, marriage transformed from distant dream to urgent reality – and for a girl living in conservative Mamuju, a way to right a wrong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Today I tell teenagers to be careful…dating can force you to speed up your life,” Suraidah says. “We must find ways to avoid child marriage.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Doing so is critical if all girls are going to realize their education rights, as child brides are four times less likely than unmarried girls to complete secondary education.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The soaring drop-out rate is driven partly by the fact that, while boys can marry at 19, for girls the age is 16 – right in the middle of high school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Suraidah was determined not to let her education become a casualty of marriage. But her growing belly became a liability that threatened to derail her studies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The school was embarrassed … but I really wanted to go on to the next grade,” she says. “My parents insisted I stay in school.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Today I tell the Dinas [education agency] and school principals that if there’s a teenager or student who gets pregnant, to not ostracize them. The psychological impact is significant, and not all of these children will [be able to] continue their schooling.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I was one of the lucky ones.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Despite her determination, staying in Mamuju wasn’t much of an option, given the stigma Suraidah would face as a young mother in high school, she says. So after a big wedding and the birth of her son, Suraidah transferred to a school in provincial capital Makassar; close enough to come home, but far enough to be anonymous. The young couple left their infant boy with Suraidah’s parents in Mamuju, however, so that Suraidah could focus on school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two years later, diploma in hand, Suraidah was excited to apply to prestigious universities outside Sulawesi. “But I decided I had to put family first,” she says. She ended up enrolling at a local university, to be close to her son and her parents. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The proximity to her father, himself a former DPRD lawmaker, proved fateful. “Of the seven children, I asked my father why is it me you want to follow in your footsteps?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“All he said was that as his child, he just knew,” Suraidahlaughs. “But it’s funny he’d pick his daughter, seeing as politics is such a man’s world.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of Mamuju’s 35 DPRD legislators, just 6 are women. It’s something Suraidah would like to change.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“It is vital to have more women in politics, because who understands what women need better than women? It can be difficult for men to find that voice.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before long, Suraidah found herself head of her party and later, head of the parliament, a post she will keep until 2019.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today, Suraidah strives to be a voice for women and children by embracing her past and the perspective it’s shaped. She is a strong believer, for example, that all girls have the right to an education on how to protect their bodies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“If it’s not there [already], we must advocate with schools [to introduce education] on it, she says. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Reproductive health knowledge has to be delivered, because young people are very vulnerable.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She plans to use 2018 to shine a light on issues facing women, especially the issue of child neglect. She herself has adopted an abandoned child, and is in the process of formalizing the adoption with local authorities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Next year I also have [plans to support] an advocacy programme for teenagers. I want to motivate youth to know that even though I married young [and was able to get an education], not everyone was as lucky as I was.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Engaging the public will be key to stopping the child marriage cycle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“We need to advocate to the community that marriage must first be fully established in the soul and the body. If the body is not mature, there will be health problems, like [higher] maternal and child mortality rates, for example,” she says. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Research shows that complications during pregnancy and childbirth are the second-leading cause of death for girls between ages 15 and 19. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“We need more discussion on child marriage, and I’m someone who is willing to do that,” she says. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I don’t want what happened to me to happen to anyone else.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Not everyone could have survived like I did.” </span><br />
<br />UNICEF Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17241673124591138431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1682676450579018159.post-29074761497668906842018-01-25T15:09:00.001+07:002018-01-25T15:11:43.508+07:00Turning Life Around With Tolerance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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hello, apa kabar?” The classroom is filled with young women and men, all on
their feet, giggling and talking excitedly. They’ve just learnt a song with
actions (meaning ‘Hello how are you?’ in various languages) and they’re using
it as a springboard to chat with new friends and learn facts about each other. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">It’s only been running
for 3 months at SMA Negri 2 Kabupaten Sorong School, but the results of the
Pendidikan Kecapakan Hidup Sehat (PKHS, or Life Skills Education) programme are
already showing through the self-confidence exuding from the students. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“It’s all really
interesting and the games are really great!” says Dwirizki Sandola, age 17.
“They help us express ourselves - we can say what we want, we can ask what we
want!” he adds. Students in Indonesia are rarely given the opportunity to speak
out during classes, so participating like this helps them to find their voices
and feel empowered.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Life Skills
Education programme consists of a series of life skills topics which young
people are encouraged to discuss and learn about through games, quizzes,
examples and debates. Each session focuses on something new, such as dealing
with conflict, understanding emotions – even topics like bullying or gender.
Others focus on specific risks like drugs, unwanted pregnancy or HIV. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“Before this Life Skills
Education programme began, there were many of us who hung out in bad groups or
who were in negative situations,” Dwirizky explains. “But through this
programme, we were shown how things might eventually turn out.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This is one of the goals
of the programme, to help young people through the sometimes-difficult
decisions they need to make in their personal lives. It aims to help boost
their confidence, build their social and personal skills, and better navigate
the risks they face.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“Before, I used to do
really bad things. I was violent,” Dwirizky adds. “But through this programme,
I’ve learnt how to handle my emotions and restrain myself.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Young people in Papua
Province witness violence more often than they should, and so understandably
often also resort to it when emotions take over. It’s a cycle that needs breaking
if young people are going to take control of their futures. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="FR-CH" style="mso-ansi-language: FR-CH; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> Dwirizky
Sandola, age 17 says that the life skills classes have helped him and his
friends to express themselves and gain self-confidence. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rizky Tiara Ramadani,
age 17, is another student who has seen the difference her choices have made.
“I used to get cajoled into joining in [with my friends]” she says. “They would
coerce me to do bad things and I wasn’t brave enough to say no. I didn’t know
how,” she says, defiantly adding that since joining the class, she now knows
exactly how to refuse. She has found her voice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Learning about the world
from other’s perspectives is a crucial element of the programme, one that
enables the students to empathise with others and see different possibilities
for the future.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“For me, the most
interesting thing about Life Skills Education is learning about tolerance” says
Dwirizky’s friend Kadek Windu Dea Atmaja, also age 17. He moved to the area a
few years ago from the island of Bali. Although it’s still Indonesia, Bali is
several hours away by flight, and miles away in terms of the risks and
challenges faced by each unique culture in the country.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“Most of the people
there are Hindu, and I didn’t often meet people who were different,” says
Kadek, who took a long time to adapt to his new, predominantly Christian
environment. “Over there, it was hard to think that people have a different way
of life.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Dea Atmaja, age 17, feels more tolerant of others since he has had the
opportunity to discuss different life experiences with his classmates through
the life skills programme.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Through the group
discussions sparked in the Life Skills class, where he and his fellow
classmates share their own experiences, he began to realise that everyone has a
different background and that it makes things more interesting. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“My attitude has
changed, I know more now and I am more tolerant. Maybe I stand out, but now I
can understand that maybe they say bad things just because they don’t
understand.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">It’s something he’s even
passed onto his Grandma, who often complains that their neighbours don’t
understand them. She listens to Kadek, as does his whole family, and he says
it’s given them a lot more to reflect on together. “<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The class ends with big
smiles and laughter as the teenagers bounce out of the classroom in twos and
threes ready to eat their lunch. “If this programme didn’t exist, I think the
difference would be enormous,” adds Dwirizki. “Turning negative things into
positive things is huge! If we weren’t guided, there would be no alternatives
and we wouldn’t know where we were going,” he says “Maybe we’d still be doing
bad things until now!” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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UNICEF Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17241673124591138431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1682676450579018159.post-79719081888897267152018-01-12T11:22:00.001+07:002018-08-14T16:09:22.467+07:00The teacher in Papua who won't give up<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By Saskia Raishaputri Moestadjab</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We sailed through the river flanked by mangroves, taking lefts and rights, heading in what felt like thousands of directions. The night before, I’d spent 7 restless hours waiting for the waters to rise and the boat to come. I was exhausted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Finally, at midnight, the team and I reached Wainlabat Village, 8 hours later than expected. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Set in the province of West Papua, Wainlabat is home to SD Inpres 58, one of 120 schools participating in UNICEF’s Rural Remote Education Initiative (RREI, funded by DFAT). Launched in 2015, the RREI aims to boost literacy and school attendance among early grade students in Tanah Papua (West Papua and Papua Provinces), where education performance lags far behind national averages. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">More than 100 “mentors” have been trained by UNICEF on literacy-building techniques, which include teaching letter sounds, employing interactive singalongs, and introducing newly designed textbooks. Each of these mentors are placed in one of the 120 participating schools to train teachers on the new approaches.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Midway through the 3-year programme, results are already in evidence: The number of non-readers has halved from 1 in 2 to roughly 1 in 4, while fluent comprehension has doubled to around 14 per cent of early grade learners. It is clear to me that that the programme is working.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Motorcycles are often used to traverse the wooden path leading the river to the the village </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">© </span><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Saskia Raishaputri Moestadjab</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> / UNICEF / 2017</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After exiting the 2-kilometer path from the river to the village, I saw very few people. I wondered where the community leaders were. Then I met Ibu Guru Naomi. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ibu Naomi, a Wainlabat native, has dedicated her life to this community, doing what many do when they want to make the most difference: She became a teacher.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Entering her classroom, I tiptoed through the aisles watching her teach. The 3rd grade class was singing and writing, grinning ear-to-ear. Next door, older students were sitting and talking. Why were they alone? Where was their teacher? I wondered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I later found out the reason: Naomi is the only teacher in town. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Every day, Ibu Naomi splits time between the six primary school grades. Sometimes, she combines first and second grades, or fourth and fifth grades, into a single class. But even then she still misses some classes. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ibu Naomi shuttles between classrooms to teach </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">© </span><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Saskia Raishaputri Moestadjab</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> / UNICEF / 2017</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"There used to be other teachers here,” says Pak Slamet, the UNICEF-trained literacy mentor in Wainlabat. “They left for a couple of days to the city, but it's been months and they haven’t returned".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“And the principal? he's barely here.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Teacher and principal absenteeism are major hurdles to education in Tanah Papua. Part of the problem is that principals are often posts of patronage rather than merit, which affects their capacity to run the school and appreciate the full value of education. The situation compromises the ability for students to get the education they deserve. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 2015, when Ibu Naomi returned to Wainlabat from Sorong, where she attended secondary school, she was devastated to see how many children were unable to read. “They didn’t even know how to order words,” she recalls. “There was no structure to the classes – it all depended on the teacher and what they wanted to teach.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With the new approach to literacy, she says, progress was swift. After a couple months, “they [the students] began to show improvements in knowing letters, even stringing words together!”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Parents were telling me, ‘if this is working, we can’t let you leave. These children need to be able to read’!” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"But I'm alone here,” she reminds me. “How am I supposed to teach six grades of students?" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> I swallow, not knowing what to say.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Hopefully with what I do, I will try to open people’s hearts to see they should be here for [the children] too," she says. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our conversation ended at noon. As I turned off the camera and closed my notebook, Ibu Naomi said she needed to go back home to change clothes before her 1pm class. We said goodbye.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Leaving the village, I took one last look back at the school. The door ajar, I could see Ibu Naomi teaching.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The image has stayed with me; here was a grassroots education champion, a true daughter of the land. I could only imagine how much literacy would improve if Papua had more like her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Even if the school is simple, or the students are few, we must never give up,” she told me. “We must never give up.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Central Java:</b> Daylight is fading as Tika, 14, sits down, brushes the lint off her pants, and begins to recall a memory she can’t quite shake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“My classmates put a bucket over my head,” she says softly. “Then they took turns hitting me.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Three years later, the pain is still raw. “I still don’t know why they [my classmates] did it,” she says. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It’s a question thousands of Indonesian schoolchildren grapple with every day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">According to the latest data, over 1 in 5 children between 13-15 years of age – some 18 million children in total – have been bullied and another 1 in 3 children have been physically attacked in schools. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For a Government committed to ending all forms of violence against children, schools are a key front in the battle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Bullying, both physical and verbal, has been proven to increase anxiety and diminish the self-esteem and sense of belonging necessary to learn and develop effectively,” says Emilie Minnick, UNICEF Indonesia Child Protection Specialist. “None of that bodes well if every child is to be empowered to realize their full potential.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Roots, a new initiative launched by UNICEF and the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection, in partnership with an array of district governments and NGO partners, invites students to take the lead in addressing the peer-to-peer abuse.*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The basic idea is simple but powerful -- to create a space for a small group of students to probe the problem and define the solutions themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Then, during Roots Day and beyond, the goal is for students to take this learning outward to change attitudes,” Minnick says.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since its launch this year, the Roots Programme pilot has been rolled out at four middle schools in South Sulawesi and another four in Central Java.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In South Sulawesi, the Roots Programme saw a 30 per cent reduction in bullying following the intervention. “We’re excited about what this could mean for a scale-up nationally,” Minnick says.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Enlisting the ‘influencers’</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Roots is more than a one-off event. It is the culmination of a semester-long process. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Over that period, 30 girl and boy “change-agents” examine bullying from several angles to determine what it is and what should be done to stop it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Among boys, Tika says, bullying often means physical violence. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Just last week I saw a boy get books thrown at him in class,” Tika says. According to government figures, more than a third of middle-school aged boys have been involved in a fight. “The incident should have been taken to the principal, but it wasn’t.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There can be a high tolerance of bullying, which is precisely what needs to change, Tika says.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For girls, the most popular form of bullying is to shame, or “hate” on another classmate, she says,. But by far the most common form is to play with names.**</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It’s a subtle form of teasing, but it can lead to serious consequences, including school drop-out and long term psychological impact.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At SMP 17 Semarang, Tika was chosen as one of the 30 ‘agents of change’ whose task it was to interrogate bullying and plan Roots Day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“The selection process is a key feature of the intervention,” says Naning Julianingsih, UNICEF Indonesia Child Protection Specialist. “We asked all the students to list the 10 people they spend the most time with, and those with the most mentions become a pool from which we drew 30.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These are the students with the largest network of friends, and hence, “the most potential to influence attitudes widely,” she says.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At Tika’s school, a few of those chosen declined to join – at first. “I think it was because they were shy, as people knew they were bullies,” Tika says.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A few weeks later the students decided to join.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“That shows how peers can make anti-bullying campaigns ‘cool’, Naning says, “and bullying ‘uncool’. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even those who have been bullies themselves can be swayed to join."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>So what’s next?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Roots Day is when all these lessons come together for the wider campus body. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Photo booths, music, and other attractions help spread the message, but the most important aspect is the opening of the conversation, says change-agent Dzulfiqar, 14. “The best way to end bullying is to make sure friends talk to friends about it,” he says. “And that starts with Roots Day.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Angun Tri Kusumawati of Indonesia’s Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection Ministry agrees its crucial to keep the momentum for change.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Your awareness should be a virus,” she told students at SMP 17. “When you sneeze, others should catch it!” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Roots Day has given her a way to process and move on from the painful memories of the past. “No-one should ever have to feel what I felt, and I want to help ensure 100 per cent of children are treated the same.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As she rises to address her teachers, her shyness seems to have fallen away. She is beaming. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Jangan jadi bully (don’t become a bully),” she yells, as others join in. “Mari jadi pembela!” (Let’s become defenders!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">*Partner NGOs include Yayasan Indonesia Mengabdi, Yayasan Setara and LPA Klaten. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">**the name Joko, for example, is changed to ‘Jokododo’, which means (in Javanese language), ‘don’t tell anyone.’<i> </i></span></span><br />
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UNICEF Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17241673124591138431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1682676450579018159.post-21240196516609505262017-11-30T16:37:00.000+07:002017-11-30T16:37:12.408+07:00In West Papua, midwives a key to halting HIV<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>By Cory Rogers, Communication Officer</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Sorong:</b></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">:With the ultrasound humming, Stevlin, 32, a mother of five, lies down on the examination table. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Soon, fuzzy thumps flood the room, and she breaks into a grin: It's not every day one hears their child’s heartbeat for the first time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Stevlin’s come to the Malawei community health centre in Sorong, West Papua Province, for an antenatal check-up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“I have to make sure my pregnancy goes well so that my baby is born healthy," she says, furrowing her brow. Stevlin lost a child to health complications in the early 2000’s, and is determined to do all she can to ensure her new baby is healthy as can be. That means eating well, exercising, sleeping enough, and testing for diseases -- especially HIV.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“West Papua has an HIV risk 15 times the national average, so testing is an absolute must for pregnant mothers here,” says Beth Nurlely, a UNICEF Indonesia Health Officer based in the province. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Though there is a 1 in 3 chance of passing HIV on to a child absent treatment, across Indonesia just 14 per cent of mothers get tested for the virus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“With antiretroviral therapy, the rate of transmission is reduced to near zero,” Nurlely adds. “We need to find creative ways to increase testing.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sorong, a gritty port town in the West Papua Province of Papua*, is one of four cities (Surabaya in East Java Province, West Jakarta in DKI Jakarta and Bandung in West Java Province) where UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) have been testing new approaches to preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In Papua, the risk of transmission has spread beyond vulnerable groups like sex workers into the general population, putting mothers like Stevlin and her baby at risk. Indeed, without marked increases in access to testing and treatment nationwide, experts say the number of children infected with HIV will double over the next decade. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Despite the danger, Stevlin says it wasn’t until 2014 that she received her first test, by which time she’d already given birth to three children. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“To be honest, I don’t really know what HIV is, but I do know I need [to test for it],” she says, as a midwife pricks her finger for blood. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“I get nervous now. l want to know my status right away.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That Stevlin’s rapid HIV test was administered by one of the health centre’s bidan (midwives) is a significant achievement. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Historically, only lab specialists have been permitted to do tests,” Nurlely says. “But there is a shortage of these trained professionals in West Papua. This has become a big bottleneck on testing.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Persuading local governments to train midwives and allow them to carry out rapid testing is a major goal of the UNICEF pilots nationwide. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In Sorong, the breakthrough came in September 2014, when the local government agreed such a reform would boost testing and protect mothers and babies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“We succeeded in convincing officials that the number of lab specialists was insufficient to cover testing needs, and so midwives were freed to do this important work,” Nurlely says.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Three years since that reform, testing has increased to 60 per cent among pregnant women in Sorong – some five times the national average.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Training midwives to treat HIV like any other blood test has been another key to reducing PMTCT, says Roys Fetty Mulalinda, the head midwife at Malawei.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Before the UNICEF intervention, pregnant women were required to sign a consent form to take an HIV test. This sounds good in theory, but consenting to a test in this way implies negative associations and, says Nurlely, reflects the stigma against the disease, which many view as a kind of curse. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now, thanks to the advocacy of local government, Roys Fetty says the consent forms are gone and the test has become commonplace. Now instead, women have to sign a waiver to opt out of the HIV test acknowledging their understanding of the risks to themselves and to their babies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“If a pregnant woman comes here, the HIV test is basically automatic,” Roys Fetty says. “The only reason they wouldn’t get tested [on our end] is if there was a stock-out.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A new grant from the Global Fund will allow UNICEF and the Government of Indonesia to expand the pilot to 28 districts next year, which will help build nationally on the successes seen in Sorong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That four out of 10 pregnant women still decline HIV tests, however, suggests there’s room to do even more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“If we want to reach all pregnant mothers, we need a provincial-level law that applies more broadly,” Nurlely says.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Such a regulation in the province has yet to be passed, but signs are hopeful: local-level PMTCT reforms are already underway in 10 of Papua’s 13 districts. Hopefully, it won’t be long until all pregnant mothers have access to this vital test.</span><br />
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UNICEF Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17241673124591138431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1682676450579018159.post-17466127187001028472017-11-29T15:20:00.001+07:002017-11-29T15:23:06.060+07:00Including Raisyam<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By Cory Rogers, Communication Officer</span></i><div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Bogor:</b> From the safety of his mother’s arms, Rayisham, 5, squints at his classmates laughing and dancing in the early morning sun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“He wants so bad to get better,” says Dian, 24, Rayisham’s mother.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She stands near the crowd of 40 or so four and five year old children at Hidyatul Hasanah Preschool near Bogor, West Java – a satellite city of 1 million south of Jakarta. “He’s always saying ‘Mom, I want to play again, I want to run again. I tell him to be patient, that God willing, he’ll be able to walk one day.”</span><br />
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<a name='more'></a>Early last March, Rayisham was hit by a motorcycle on the way home from the market. His right leg needed surgery, and the nearest hospital was three hours away. By the time he arrived, it was too late to save his leg, and doctors were forced to amputate.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“After the accident, we wanted to delay sending him to preschool because we were worried he’d be ostracized [by his peers],” Dian says standing outside the two-room preschool amid rice paddies. But after a cousin started talking to Rayisham about school, “he really wanted to go, and so we decided to come,” she adds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A month since that decision, Dian says she’s noticed big changes in Rayisham’s attitude. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“His [emotional] development is improving. He is no longer so cepat marah (getting angry quickly), and school has given him something to look forward to,” she says. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Starting this month, UNICEF, the Ministry of Education and local implementing partners will begin an early education programme to equip preschool teachers in the district with the tools and training they need to reach all children and help them reach their potential.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“All children, no matter what their ability, deserve access to the benefits of high-quality early childhood development that brings together cognitive and emotional development,” says UNICEF Education Officer Meliana Istanto. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The programme will target 100 early education centres with block grants totalling Rp100,000,000 (around $7,500 USD) over a period of three years.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“No child should be left out.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">According to Siti Nuraeni, a teacher at the school, the best strategy for reaching every child is to never apply a one-size-fits-all logic. She pays close attention to how mothers speak to children, and strives to mimic those approaches. That is easy to do as mothers are never far away at Hidyatul Hasanah, swapping stories and eating snacks while their children learn and play.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The proximity is a double-edged sword; though it helps children focus, teachers say it emboldens mothers to request reading and writing instruction, which are skills best left for older, more developed brains.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“The most important thing about preschool is finding out how to stoke children’s curiosity,” says Sukendar, the Government’s area preschool supervisor – not literacy, in other words. “Every year there’s a new crop of parents to reach [and educate], and that becomes a challenge.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In addition to funding parent outreach, the UNICEF funding will help schools renovate their campuses to make them more child-friendly and hygienic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At Hidyatul Hasanah, for example, water is currently sourced from an above-ground well. The well is exposed and the water is muddy and contaminated. With the purchase of pipes and a pump, the water could be kept underground. More playground equipment could also be bought to replace the broken, rusty swingset.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the end, some 7,500 children in greater Bogor District will benefit from improvements to their curriculums, schools, teachers and grounds, giving every student, including Rayisham, a better chance to dream big. His tale captures the transformative power that early childhood education can wield.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Somehow, it was him who motivated me to come here,” Dian says, picking Rayisham up from his chair and placing him on her motorbike for the drive home. “It was him who motivated me.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rayisham grins when asked what he wants to do when he grows up. “I want to be a doctor,” he says.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“So I can fix people.” </span><br />
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UNICEF Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17241673124591138431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1682676450579018159.post-27258784967667190152017-11-06T15:44:00.000+07:002017-11-21T10:00:33.524+07:00Reaching Adam<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>By Cory Rogers, Communication Officer</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Tulungagung:</b> “You can tell where they worked by the design of the house,” says Ibu Ana as we rumble past large, multi-roofed homes on the way to Ibu Katiyah’s place. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Two years ago Ibu Katiyah returned to this corner of East Java with her three-year-old son Adam – 27 years after first departing. Ibu Ana, a government welfare worker, met them while verifying welfare rolls, and the two became fast friends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Migrant labourers like to build big houses here like the ones they work in overseas,” Ibu Ana adds as we zig and zag, dodging chicke</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">ns, potholes and the occasional shingle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“But Ibu Katiyah didn’t have enough money to build one. She lives in a dirt-floor home up the road.” </span><br />
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<a name='more'></a>Ibu Katiyah is one of millions of Indonesians who’ve departed for cities like Singapore, Hong Kong and Riyadh for the chance to earn wages many times local salaries; as the home-building spree suggests, the leap of faith can pay dividends.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But the decision also comes at a cost – not only for the up to 80 per cent of Indonesia's domestic workers who <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">endure "isolation, underpayment, long working hours, forced labor, human trafficking, and violence" -- but </span>for their children, too.* </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Growing up with absent parents or in circumstances where social services are hard to reach can increase a child’s risk of dropping out of school, and leave them more vulnerable to violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation,” says Astrid Dionisio, UNICEF Indonesia Child Protection Specialist. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“The challenge for Government is to <a href="https://medium.com/@UNICEFIndonesia/making-social-services-work-for-children-922249f38f69">create a system</a> that is pro-active and responsive to the needs of all children, especially the most vulnerable,” she adds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With nearly a dozen sub-agencies coordinating district-level education, health and wellbeing needs for 87 million children nationwide, however, there can be confusion over how to provide timely, comprehensive care. In partnership with the Ministry of Social Affairs, UNICEF is committed to sharpening the system with a new pilot on integrated social services for children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The project, called the Program Kesejahteran Sosial Anak – Integratif (PKSAI) or integrated child welfare services, launched in five districts in 2016. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“The PKSAI brings service providers under the coordination of the Ministry of Social Affairs under one tent for more efficient service provision and case management,” Dionisio explains. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Across the pilots, the number of children reached doubled in 2016 – spurring the Government to expand the pilot to 100 districts next year.**</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“It [the PSKSAI] is a physical space, an office. With the new referral system in place, a holistic range of assistance can be provided for children who have, for example, come into conflict with the law, or endured some kind abuse, neglect or exploitation,” Dionisio adds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Or, as in Ibu Katiyah’s case, when a child simply lacks a birth certificate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Outside Ibu Katiyah’s home, a boulder-flecked mountain towers over farmland that stretches for miles down to her cousin’s three-storey house -- a home her remittances helped build years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“I had to take care of my family members, especially my sick parents,” Katiyah says, explaining why she had not saved enough money to build her own family such a home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Her son Adam, now 5, was born in Malaysia, the product of a customary marriage to an Indonesian man she met while working. Lacking residency papers, however, Katiyah never legalized the marriage. And when the family returned to Indonesia by boat in 2015, they did not register Adam’s birth. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A birth certificate is Indonesia’s foundational identity document, without which access to education, welfare, healthcare and other citizenship rights can be denied. Across Indonesia, nearly 1 in 3 children still lack the pivotal document.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Reaching children like Adam, who live far from government centres in remote rural enclaves, rests on improving coordination with field workers like Ibu Ana. Indeed, Ibu Ana says she often finds such children lacking birth certificates, but a lack of resources makes it impossible to directly assist each and every one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“One PHK [government welfare] facilitator handles between 150 and 200 families, so we have a lot of responsibility,” she says. “When I identify a child in need of assistance, now I can just call the PKSAI (the integrated child welfare services in Tulungagung).” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In most cases, within 24 hours, social workers from the centre arrive to assess the child’s situation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ibu Rini of the Tulungagung Civil Registration Office notes similar benefits. “The truth is we don’t have the resources to register children in remote villages who still haven’t been reached,” she says. “So for us the PKSAI system has been a significant help.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since 2015, the year the PKSAI opened, the number of unregistered children has been halved. Adam received his in September of this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In addition to birth registration, the PKSAI facilitates mediation for children in conflict with the law, psycho-social support for those who have experienced trauma, and interventions designed to protect children from violence -- “the whole range of social services needed to ensure children are developing safe and healthy,” says UNICEF’s Dionisio.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There’s still much to do to improve performance, however: Case management data has yet to be integrated among service providers, for example, and much of the inter-agency coordination occurs in an ad-hoc fashion. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But Adam’s story illustrates how government efforts to protect children are being synchronized in this migrant labour hotspot, where there is a high need for care: With his birth certificate in hand, Adam will be able to enrol in primary school on time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“After I had my son, I knew I wanted to raise him in the ‘motherland’,” Katiyah says in English. She speaks with a slight British lilt from her years in Singapore, and says she hopes he’ll learn English at school, too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“I miss the people I worked for sometimes, because they were good to me,” she says as dusk settles and the air begins to chill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“But this is Indonesia. This is home sweet home.”</span><br />
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UNICEF Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17241673124591138431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1682676450579018159.post-72677243568736449452017-10-31T14:33:00.000+07:002017-12-15T15:48:39.429+07:00Pioneering survey asks 8-12-year-old Indonesians: what's life like?<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>By Cory Rogers, Communication Officer</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />Preadolescents have a lot to say about life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Take <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVD5C6_tveU">this</a> 11-year-old boy from Indonesian Borneo, or Jenni <i>(pictured below)</i>, who lives in Indonesia’s province of West Java. The 10-year-old says being a good friend is something you learn with practice.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">“A
good friend should always be there to help you through difficulties,” says Jenni
(centre). “Real friends come to your house when you’re sick, and you go to
their house when they are.” </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">© Cory Rogers / UNICEF / 2017</span></span></i></div>
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<a name='more'></a>Scientists say it is at this age, in preadolescence, that children begin to critically assess their lives, asking themselves questions like, ‘what do I think about my family, my friends, my future’?<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This year, Indonesia joined a <a href="http://www.isciweb.org/">global initiative</a> that believes the answers might not only be insightful, but valuable guides of policy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The country’s initiative, a partnership between the University of Islam Bandung (UNISBA), the Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas) the National Statistics Office (BPS) and UNICEF, took the form of a schools-based pilot survey in West Java, Indonesia’s most populous province. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some 24,000 8-12 year olds in 270 selected schools were asked about the worlds they inhabit – to describe what it felt like to be themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“This is the first survey in Indonesia to consult 8-12 year olds directly, at district level, about their subjective experience, how they feel about their home, school, friendships etc.” says Charlotte Lie-Piang, UNICEF Indonesia Knowledge and Management Specialist. The 13,000-island nation is home to 25 million children aged 8-12 years, spread among 6,543 districts.</span><br />
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survey in the district of Cirebon, West Java. <span style="background: white; color: #222222;">© Cory Rogers / UNICEF / 2017</span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“The plan is to use the information and combine it with the Government’s existing statistics for the development of a district-level Child Well-being Index in West Java next year,” she adds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Importantly, the survey addresses what many call the “middle childhood gap”, or the shortage of research on preadolescents compared to their younger and older counterparts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“The goal is to gain a fuller picture of life for this age group. We have a lot of data on children, but relatively limited information directly from children on the aspects of their lives that they feel happy and less happy about," Lie-Piang says.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"The results from the survey will become valuable input for policymakers," says Dr. Ihsana Sabriani Borualogo, professor of psychology at UNISBA. "It will help ensure we understand wellbeing and happiness in a much more comprehensive way." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Great care was taken to ensure the survey was both voluntary and confidential. No child was forced to take it, and facilitators from UNISBA, as well as teachers, were given careful instructions on how to assist children who had questions. Any child who wished to stop could do so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Every effort, moreover, was made to ensure no child was left out. For 8-year-olds, facilitators read the test aloud to ensure comprehension. They also provided assistance to children with special needs and those not able to read or speak Indonesian. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When asked what she would do tomorrow if
she didn’t have to come to school, Jihan, 9, </span></i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(left)<i> says she would choose to help her mother
with household chores. “My mom can always use my help, especially with cleaning
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Though some 42 nations worldwide are participating in the third wave of this survey, Indonesia is one of just a handful where Government has joined the effort. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“By bringing Bappenas and BPS onto the project, we ensure the insights gleaned have the best chance of influencing future decisions,” says UNICEF Indonesia Consultant Widodo Suhartoyo. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“What we want to do is to create synergy between the data and the decision-makers, and the best way to do that is with the Government on board from the start,” he adds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The planned Child-Wellbeing Index will help policymakers understand preadolescents’ needs in greater detail, and the hope is it will be a reference for a national scale-up in coming years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Indonesia is a global leader on SDGs and children,” says Lie Piang. “With the creation of a Child Wellbeing Index, the Government will have an important tool for monitoring progress among children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“For the first time, preadolescents in Indonesia have been given a chance to communicate with the Government about how they view their lives,” she says. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“I hope we can build on the momentum generated with this pilot, because these children’s voices matter.”</span><br />
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<br />UNICEF Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17241673124591138431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1682676450579018159.post-10776709229281125522017-10-17T14:37:00.001+07:002017-10-17T15:06:39.769+07:00#GirlsTakeOver: Adolescents take action to end child marriage<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It wasn’t out of the ordinary for Indonesia’s Minister of Women Empowerment and Child Protection to deliver a speech for International Day of the Girl Child. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Except that this year, the minister was a 19-year-old girl.</span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It started a few days before, when 21 adolescents aged 15-19 years from across Indonesia convened for a three-day Leadership Camp run by <a href="https://plan-international.org/indonesia" target="_blank">Plan Indonesia</a>, UNICEF, <a href="http://jaringanaksiremaja.com/" target="_blank">The Indonesian Adolescent Girls Network (AKSI)</a>, and <a href="https://becauseiamagirl-indonesia.org/youth-coalition-for-girl/" target="_blank">Youth Coalition for Girls</a>. The goal was to discuss the ongoing problem of child marriage and enhance skills in communications, advocacy, and leadership – all in preparation for “taking over” the Ministry of Women Empowerment and Child Protection for a day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Child marriage prevalence in Indonesia has stagnated since 2012, with little decrease in annual prevalence rates. Some 1 in 9 girls in Indonesia marry before 18; that’s 375 girls ev</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ery day. Only six countries see more girls marry each year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For years, there’s been discussion, both in civil society and in Government, of increasing the minimum age of marriage (from 16 to 18 for girls) and eliminating loopholes for religious exceptions to the current age limits. Seeing these 21 adolescents from across the country (selected from over 1,800 other adolescents through <a href="https://indonesia.ureport.in/" target="_blank">U-Report</a>, a social media-based platform for youth and adolescents to express their aspiration) gave me renewed hope. I am confident these adolescent voi</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ces will be the key to influencing the Government's plans to address child marriage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On 11 October, these adolescents “took over” the Ministry of Women Empowerment and Child Protection’s high-level posts for a day. A U-Reporter from North Sumatra, Ayu Juwita, was selected as Minister. Ayu led a meeting with her fellow deputies to discuss solutions to the problem of child marriage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The meeting ended with 9 recommendations, which included legalizing a Government Regulation In Lieu of Law (Perppu) on Child Marriage Prevention, an executive order for the government, parents, and society to take responsibilities in addressing child marriage. The adolescents also urged the Ministry to work with local communities and religious leaders to raise awareness about why child marriage was harmful, and to boost access to education for girls who have already married by working with the Ministry of Education and Culture. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ayu, the one-day Minister, delivered the 9 recommendations to Deputy of Child Development Ibu Lenny Rosalin after the meeting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“I will make sure the Minister receives this for further discussion,” Ibu Lenny promised.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The youngsters also got the chance to visit former First Lady Sinta Nuriyah Abdurrahman Wahid. Ibu Sinta told them how her late husband, former President Abdurrahman “Gus Dur” Wahid, proposed to her when she was only 13 – but that she’d rejected the proposal: She wanted to finish her education first, and emphasized that education should never be sacrificed for marriage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“My father was disappointed when I rejected Gus Dur's proposal. But I wanted to be a smart person. I wouldn’t be smart had I married young," she said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ibu Sinta’s inspiring story ignited the spirit of the adolescents who’d come together, all of whom promised to build support for ending child marriage in their communities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Changing the Marriage Law regarding the minimum age of marriage might take a long time. But big changes start with small steps. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am confident these adolescents going the ones who will trigger the change we need.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>*Watch videos of the event <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/UReportindonesia/videos/?ref=page_internal">here.</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Makassar:</b> "Did this game teach you anything you didn’t know before?" Saskia Raishaputri Moestadjab, a UNICEF consultant, asked participants at a Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) training in Makassar, South Sulawesi.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A man named Ilham raised his hand and replied: "Well, now I know there are two kinds of menstrual pads – disposable and reusable."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The room burst into embarrassed laughter: even at this adult training session, it seemed odd to hear a man talk about menstrual pads. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Indeed, a 2015 UNICEF study showed that MHM issues are still taboo, especially among youth. This not only leads to low awareness about menstrual hygiene among girls; it also means boys are apt to tease, or bully, girls about a process they don’t understand. Studies show such bullying of girls is widespread in Indonesia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One female participant, Eka Hardiyanti, says she remembers feeling afraid to go to school for fear of being ridiculed. “It was so uncomfortable for me to go to school during menstruation, since I was afraid my male peers would find out,” she said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ilham and Eka are two of 20 participants of a two-day MHM training conducted by the women’s and children’s health NGO LemINA Foundation, in partnership with UNICEF. The training is part of UNICEF's efforts to promote the mainstreaming of MHM education at schools throughout the country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A failure to break the taboo silence can have significant impacts on girls’ education outcomes. One study found that one in six girls missed school during their last menstruation, many because they were afraid of being teased. The lack of knowledge around menstrual hygiene, meanwhile, can have repercussions for girls’ health. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The training aimed to explain how to use a UNICEF-designed comic book to address this problem. The comic, titled "What is Menstruation?”, can help these educators introduce discussions around MHM in primary schools. The comic was adopted by the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Ministry of Health in mid-2017. In collaboration with the National School Health Program (UKS), it has been distributed to 340 elementary schools nationwide, and is expected to reach 34,000 5th and 6th grade students.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The hope is that the book will raise awareness among boys about what menstruation is and, as a result, bring down bullying rates, empowering girls to pursue uninterrupted education. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nurfitriani Madjid, LemINA project manager, said the brainstorming sessions had equipped her and others with strategies that will help the project succeed. In particular, she said she learned one of the best ways to reach children was to relate to them as a friend would, rather than as a superior. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Indeed, by the end of the training, most participants felt ready to jumpstart MHM conversations in classrooms to help stop bullying and positively impact girls’ education and health.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I hope the current generation doesn’t continue to view menstruation as taboo,” said Eka Hardiyanti.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“No girl should be bullied like I was. </span>UNICEF Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17241673124591138431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1682676450579018159.post-14891702682378230132017-09-29T17:37:00.000+07:002017-09-29T17:37:07.318+07:00Going all out for every child: East Java's success in the Measles-Rubella campaign<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>By UNICEF Indonesia</i></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Surabaya:</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> As Indonesia’s largest-ever immunisation campaign draws to a close, it is clear that its success is due to strong government leadership and committed partners working together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The 2017 Measles and Rubella (MR) vaccination campaign aims to immunize 35 million children aged 9 months to 15 years old across Java Island, where half of Indonesia’s population lives. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Led by the Government of Indonesia, with support from partners such as UNICEF, GAVI, the Indonesia Ulema Council (MUI) and others, planning for the two-month campaign began many months prior to the 1 August launch to ensure the ambitious targets were met. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The campaign in East Java Province typifies this collaborative approach, as strong leadership by the provincial government has been instrumental in enabling the province to exceed the benchmark set down by the central government of 95 per cent coverage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">East Java Governor Dr. Soekarwo has been a champion of the MR campaign since it was first announced in July, when he took the extraordinary step of convening all 38 district heads and mayors to sign a pact pledging all 9 million children in the province would be vaccinated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“We are happy to have achieved our target of 95 percent coverage,” Dr. Soekarwo said in an evaluation meeting organized by UNICEF and the East Java Provincial Health Office on 27 September. “But we have promised that we would deliver 100 percent. And this should happen across the province.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks to the tireless work of East Java’s thousands of district health officials who performed the immunizations in schools and local health centres, the magic number of 100 per cent coverage is within reach.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Making sure the public is properly informed is another area where the government and its partners have worked hand-in-hand. Ahead of the campaign, UNICEF helped the Ministry of Health create a social media campaign and craft a series of television spots that reached tens of thousands of parents with key messages on the need to protect their children from Measles and Rubella.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Committed advocacy by pro-vaccine alliances, Muslim social organizations (including the Nadhlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah), the Indonesia Midwives Association (IBI) and others were pivotal in forming local responses to concerns as they arose.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Surabaya-based Jawa Pos, Indonesia’s largest media house, played a key role too, working with the Government to dispel myths and misconceptions about the safety of the vaccine, and to highlight breakthroughs and propose solutions for challenges faced by doctors and health workers on the ground.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Madura Island the Government held a special town hall meeting with prominent Islamic clerics to promote the vaccine as safe and <i>halal </i>(allowed by Islamic law), and the MUI issued a written statement in support of vaccines such as MR. The MR vaccine has been used in over 140 countries around the world, including in other Muslim-majority countries like Saudi Arabia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The powerful blend of provincial leadership and grassroots support clearly paid off as the MR vaccination campaign reached its target even in Madura, which has historically recorded the lowest coverage of immunized children both regionally and nationally. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Immunization is the most effective and efficient health intervention focused on prevention and promotion, not treatment,” said Governor Soekarwo. “East Java believes that prevention and promotion are the future models of healthcare in Indonesia. And that is why we firmly invest in this belief for our children.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next year the campaign will resume on islands outside Java, where another 35 million children aged 9 months to 15 years will be targeted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The leadership shown by the East Java government during this year’s MR campaign is a model for other governments to emulate,” says Arie Rukmantara, who heads the UNICEF office in Surabaya. “It shows what kind of results for children are possible when committed leaders and civil society work together toward a shared goal.”</span>UNICEF Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17241673124591138431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1682676450579018159.post-60859869527291485472017-09-28T15:23:00.000+07:002017-09-28T15:24:43.476+07:00Community-based management of acute malnutrition: A new hope for children<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“If I had agreed to enrol Disan in the Community Based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) program earlier, he would have gotten healthy faster,” said Yustina Tallo, mother of 15-month-old Disan Tallo, in a small village in East Nusa Tenggara Province.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Timika:</b> "I am aware of my role and duty. I am a teacher. Being aware of those obligations is what I share with my fellow teachers, that a teacher is coming to school not merely to teach. If it were like that, a junior high student could do the job." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ibu Federica Lope, from Santo Rafael primary school in Timika, Papua, is not your typical principal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For nearly two decades, she worked as a teacher in Timika, a mining town at the western edge of Indonesia’s easternmost island and province. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Only recently has she accepted a new role as principal of Santo Rafael, one of dozens of schools participating in UNICEF’s Rural and Remote Education initiative (a DFAT funded initiative). The programme seeks to boost literacy rates and school attendance in Tanah Papua (Papua and West Papua), two of Indonesia's lowest-performing provinces in terms of education outcomes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"We need to make children think, ‘class is fun!” she exclaims. “To think, ‘I am always happy to go to school’.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“We also need to learn to be sympathetic and make children like us, to make them say, ‘I want to go to school. I want to meet my teacher'. Those are the little things I did, and praise God, there have been changes." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ibu Federica goes above and beyond the norm. She does more than oversee implementation of the government-issued Curriculum. Mostly, she is concerned with nurturing curiosity, with bringing the best out of each student in the community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One of the biggest challenges, she said, can be parents who do not share her enthusiasm for education.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Many of them are coming with no education background. So I will visit them at their homes, happily, when I need to. House-by-house I initiate contact,” she says.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Based on a 2015 UNICEF study, about half of parents finished high school, while 12 per cent never enrolled. A correlate study showed 20 per cent of parents were illiterate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These low levels of educational attainment mean many parents do not value education. Changing those attitudes has been a key goal of UNICEF’s programme, and one that Ibu Federica embraces with zeal. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Indeed, during her years as a teacher, Ibu Federica routinely visited the homes of absent students. The approach became a hallmark of her teaching style. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"We need to go look for them at home, and this is what I’ve encouraged other teachers to do,” she says. “If a student fails to show up for three consecutive days, the teacher should go to the home.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“And if they don’t, I will.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is common practice in Timika is to allow students to advance to the next grade despite poor behaviour, grades, and attendance. This poses another challenge for educators.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If children don’t come to school, they cannot expect to receive a passing grade, she says. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Even if a student comes to school for the exam and the parents say they’re sorry, we have to tell them not to expect the child to progress to the next grade.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She pushes her team of teachers to put forth their best effort, and to always come to class. Teacher absenteeism is another problem in Papua. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"What I always say is, ‘use the time with the students the best as you can’.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“If the bell rings at 7:30am and we are still outside until 8am, it is a kind of ‘time corruption’,” she says. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Leaders like Ibu Federica are key to keeping children in school and improving education outcomes so that the average Papuan child has the same access to education as a child in Yogyakarta Province, a national leader in education performance. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ibu Federica shows how, with practical effort and dedication, the education rights of Papuan children might be more fully realized.</span>UNICEF Indonesiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17241673124591138431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1682676450579018159.post-64431709465206940302017-09-19T15:24:00.000+07:002017-09-22T16:04:35.547+07:00RapidPro: a secret weapon behind the Measles-Rubella campaign<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>By Cory Rogers, Communication Officer</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Semarang</b>: “Akhsan’s mother works at the garment factory during the day, I work nights,” says Fathul in Regunang, Central Java, a shady, rolling village in sight of Mt. Merbabu, a 3,145m volcano rising slowly from the hills. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He and 3-year-old son Akhsan are the lone father/child pair on the lawn of the village health post, but they are at ease; like the 30 mother/child pairs, they’ve come for Measles and Rubella (MR) vaccines -- two diseases that, while entirely preventable, can be deadly to children. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Did it hurt? Fathul asks Akhsan, who is busy watching throngs of toddlers in various stages of fear and relief, seemingly amused by the commotion. Akhsan shakes his head no. “He didn’t cry once! Fathul boasts. “Not once!”</span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">It’s a scene playing out thousands of times this month on Java, with the Government hoping to vaccinate 35 million children aged 9 months to 15 years by September’s end. Next year, another 35 million children will be targeted outside Java, making this the Government’s biggest immunization drive to date.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Six weeks into the two-month campaign, over 30 million children have been immunized, and the target is very much within reach. Health workers say a new technology -- RapidPro, an entirely free, SMS-based, mobile health monitoring tool developed by UNICEF – is making a big difference. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“With RapidPro, we get the information [on coverage] immediately, and can see where there are problems,” says Ibu Ani, who heads the health agency in Semarang, the district Akshan calls home. RapidPro pilots were rolled out <a href="http://unicefstories.org/2017/06/02/mobile-health-pilot-boosting-immunization-in-urban-java/" target="_blank">in Jakarta</a> years ago, but this is the first time the technology has been scaled up by the Government nationwide. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“The technology is simple and easy to use,” Ani says. “It is fast and it is accurate.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since the MR campaign launched in <a href="https://blogs.unicef.org/east-asia-pacific/nationwide-measles-rubella-immunization-campaign-kicks-off-70-million-kids-indonesia/" target="_blank">early August</a>, RapidPro has been providing real-time coverage analysis at the level of the community health centre, or puskesmas. There are 3617 such centres spread across Java, and never before has coverage analysis reached this level of detail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Specialists at community health centres tally the numbers of children immunized during scheduled visits to area schools (the August phase, targeting 6-15-year-old children) or village health posts (the September phase, targeting infants and toddlers) and send the raw figure by SMS to a central database in Jakarta. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The data – which can be viewed by the day, week, or month – is uploaded to the RapidPro dashboard, providing a scorecard that shows which province, district and puskesmas are hitting vaccination targets. Every clinic and district have location codes, which allows for the quick mapping of problem areas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“With this visibility comes greater accountability. That means laggards – all the way down to the level of the community health centre – are easily identifiable,” says I Made Suwancita, UNICEF Indonesia’s RapidPro manager. “In the context of the MR campaign, this stokes healthy competition between local governments and helps ensure every child is reached.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He and three other UNICEF staff maintain a RapidPro help hotline, but queries are becoming less and less frequent as the campaign progresses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Indeed, According to Susmiyati, the immunization coordinator at Tengaran Puskesmas in Semarang District (one of 26 overseen by the Semarang district health office), “the only challenge for RapidPro has been unstable networks, as sometimes we can’t send the SMS through; other than that the process is clear and straightforward.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She attributes the popularity to RapidPro’s ability to bypass many of the shortcomings of the paper-based system.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In previous immunization drives, coverage data was notated manually at each health centre before being passed up to district, provincial and national levels. That process took days, and left a lot of room for human error. RapidPro eliminates this inefficiency and automates the tabulation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With RapidPro, administrators can better mount responses in trouble areas without delay, says Ani of the Semarang district health office. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She gave the example of one August day when coverage was unexpectedly low at one of the 26 health centres. A phone call showed why: half the parents at a 1000-student Islamic boarding school were concerned the MR shots were haram, or forbidden by Islam, and were refusing to allow their children to receive the vaccines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Such opposition has surfaced in pockets across Java, requiring visits from religious figures community leaders to reassure parents that immunizations do not conflict with Islamic teachings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“[Because of RapidPro] I was able to discover the root of this problem quickly,” Ani says, “and within 24 hours we were already going there [to the school.] Before, it could have been a week before we really knew there was a problem to address.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As the government moves into the final push, it is clear RapidPro is helping government officials mount responses in trouble spots, ensuring no child is deprived of an MR vaccine that could save his or her life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“In this modern era we should make use of our information technologies so that we can get the information straightaway and know where there are problems,” Ani says.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“In my opinion, RapidPro could be used for anything.”</span><br />
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