Coordinating Minister For Human Development And Culture: 57.91 Percent Of Early Childhoods In Indonesia Live In Uninhabitable Houses

Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Muhadjir Effendy when attending virtually at the National Coordination Meeting of BKKBN on Thursday (24/8/2023). BETWEEN/HO-BKKBN

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture (Menko PMK) Muhadjir Effendy said there were still 57.91 percent of early childhood in Indonesia living in uninhabitable homes. "There are 57.91 percent of early childhood children living in uninhabitable homes," said Muhadjir in an official statement received in Jakarta, Friday, August 25, confiscated by Antara. This data was submitted by Muhadjir while attending the National Coordination Meeting for the Position of the Family Development Index (iBangga) virtually organized by the National Population and Family Planning Agency (BKKBN) on Thursday, August 24. He also said, based on data from the 2022 Indonesian Nutrition Status Survey (SSGI), the percentage of national stunting toddlers is still at 21.6 percent. Muhadjir also mentioned data on the 2018 National Socio-Economic Survey (Susenas) showing that 16.4 percent of children do not yet have birth certificates, the high number of child marriages which is still at 8 percent, and 3.73 percent of infants under five years old (balita) still get unfeasible care. In addition, citing data on Indonesian Youth Statistics (2022), there are 2.26 percent of youths who perform marriages under the age of 16 years (child marriages), one in four young men smoking, an increase in divorce rates by 15 percent (2021-2022), with the main cause (64 percent) of disputes and quarrels.

Then, only 10 percent of youths graduated from college, and 33.05 percent of youths were still working with less than 2/3 median wages.

Meanwhile, for poverty problems, based on data from the Central Statistics Agency in 2023 semesters I or March, there are still 9.36 percent of poor people spread across urban and rural areas. Families are also faced with increasing living expenses and poverty rates that are still high, imbalances between work and life that can increase conflicts and stress, as well as the impact of information technology in families that causes a lack of time spent together (time togetherness), then addiction to gadgets, to lack of physical activity and increasing individualism," he said. Muhadjir said, in addition to this situation, the family also faces various challenges today, namely the change in structure from a large family (extended family) to a nuclear family), as well as changes in gender role for example households led by women and female workers. For this reason, Muhadjir emphasized the importance of the Family Development Index (iBangga) which could be an indicator of success from family development policies, marked by the increase in the achievement of iBangga from 54.00 in 2021 to 56.07 in 2022. This achievement should be improved considering the target in 2023, namely 59 and in 2024 to 61.