The justification of this paper is to see how
Indonesia's socio-cultural, religious and political settings
surrounding reproductive health education and services for
young people have evolved and whether any progresses have
been made since the i994 lCPD Population Program of Action.
Why do the Indonesian government still demonstrate a very
conservative approach towards sexuality even though
increasing numbers of STDs/HW/AIDS, premarital sex and
unsafe premarital abortion are more apparent among young
people? Why is reproductive health still absent from the public
policy agenda? And why has these issues been forgotten-
hidden ' and nat being properly addressed? Discussion will also
be focus on how the government still treats young Indonesian
as a non-sexual being. This paper is based on the l994/95
Sexuality and Marriage Values Survey and field research in
indonesia during August 2000-March 2001. The survey was
funded by the Demography and Sociology Program, Australian
National University while the Australian ?s Department of
Education, Training and Youth Affairs through the Merdeka
Fellowship program sponsored the second part of the data
collection.
