Minister Of National Development Planning/Bappenas Affirms The Best Family Planning Program In The World In Today's Memory, 31 July 2017

Bambang Brodjonegoro, who served as Minister of National Development Planning/Bappenas from the 2016-2019 era. (ANTARA)

JAKARTA Memories of today, seven years ago, July 31, 2017, the Minister of National Development Planning (PPN)/Bappenas, Bambang Brodjonegoro emphasized that the Family Planning program (KB) is one of the best family planning programs in the world. Efforts to control birth have benefits.

Previously, the KB program was fully supported by Suharto and the new Order. The program is considered the spearhead of the welfare of women. The KB program can reduce the number of mothers dying after giving birth and living mediocre.

Many children, many sustenance. The narrative began to be considered obsolete in the era of the Soeharto government and the New Order. The owner of power sees that actions that do not want to control birth can lead to harm.

New Order sees women as the most miserable. The number of mothers who die after giving birth increases. Not to mention the business of raising children who need a lot of money. They are the people who can afford it no problem. However, it becomes a problem if they come from mediocre families.

A series of problems lead to increasing poverty. Life will be increasingly difficult and a brilliant generation of the nation's successors that Indonesia aspires to will not be achieved. Suharto and New Order took a stand. They support the KB program.

The support was given not just mere pleasantries. The New Order seriously established the National Family Planning Institution (LKBN) in 1968. The institution then changed its name to the National Family Planning Coordinating Board (BKKBN) in 1970.

Suharto hopes that the Indonesian people will start thinking about having children with a maximum of two people. New Order is serious about financing the KB program. The budget is increasing every year. As a result, the growth rate of the population can be suppressed.

Recently Suharto's support for KB was flooded with praise. This success also made him look at by the United Nations. As an appreciation, the United Nation Population Awards (UNPA) on June 8, 1989.

In a ceremony at the UN headquarters, about an hour, UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar will hand over the United Nations Population Awards (UNPA) to President Suharto. The same award will be received by M. Aissah Agbetra, Minister of Health Togo. So, President Suharto will read his speech, 35 pages thick.

Pak Harto is the first ASEAN head of state to receive this award. Since the awarding of the population award was decided by the UN General Assembly, 1981, there have been several integral figures and institutions who have received the award: Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, 1983. Professor Carmen A. Miro of Panama, Professor total J. Segal of the US, 1984, and Bangladeshi President Hossain Mohammad Ershad, 1987, "said Amran Nasution and Sidartha Pratidina in his article in Tempo Magazine entitled An Award on Birthday (1989).

Traces of the KB program continue to be continued by the presidents after Suharto. KB remains a mainstay to reduce the growth rate of the population. The Indonesian government during the Joko Widodo (Jokowi) administration was like that too.

Minister of National Development Planning/Bappenas, Bambang Brodjonegoro, revealed that KB has helped Indonesia a lot in terms of sustainable development. He also emphasized that KB is one of the best family planning programs in the world.

Bambang revealed this at the National Seminar with the theme Family Planning: Empowering the Community, Building the Nation at the Bidakara Hotel on July 31, 2017. He also hopes that the government can continue to collaborate in supporting KB.

The KB program has succeeded in reducing the number of children per one girl by almost half. The KB program has also indirectly succeeded in improving the health level by decreasing the Child Death Rate and Toddler Death Rate. This makes the KB program one of the best family planning programs in the world.

"I hope the results of this meeting can be a valuable input for stakeholders and policymakers in perfecting policies, strategies, and population development programs and family planning," concluded Bambang as quoted on the Bappenas website, July 31, 2017.