Jakarta (ANTARA) – The Population and Family Development Ministry (BKKBN) said it continues to improve family quality and resilience to address Indonesia’s aging population.
Population and Family Development Minister Wihaji outlined several policy strategies during a working meeting with House of Representatives (DPR) Commission IX here on Tuesday, including shifting the focus of family planning from the “two children are enough” concept toward improving national family quality.
“The strategic role of the Family Development, Population, and Family Planning Program (Bangga Kencana) in facing the changing population structure is to maintain structural balance by managing population quantity while strengthening family quality and resilience,” he said.
Population management is carried out through several measures, including delaying the age of marriage and preventing child marriage, as well as strengthening family planning and maternal and child health programs, including the use of long-term contraception, he explained.
These efforts also involve aligning policies on population quality and quantity, along with culture-based family planning campaigns and outreach involving religious figures, traditional leaders, and young people.
The programs include the Development for Families with Toddlers (BKB), TAMASYA daycare, the Family Acceptor Income Improvement Business (UPPKA), and the Quality Family Village program.
They are complemented by adolescent resilience and elderly empowerment initiatives through the Indonesian Role Model Fathers Movement (GATI) and the Indonesian Family Academy.
These efforts are further supported by the Foster Parents Movement to Prevent Stunting (Genting) and the Healthy Kitchen to Overcome Stunting (Dashat) program.
To date, 159,587 foster parents (OTA) have participated in the Genting program, with an estimated Rp72 billion in assistance provided by OTA partners.
Based on the 2020 Population Census and BPS-Bappenas-UNFPA projections of Indonesia’s population composition from 1970 to 2040, the country’s population structure has been shifting, with the share of people aged 65 and above increasing, while the working-age population (15–64) and the 0–14 age group are declining.
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