Early years

Early years

Primary school years

Primary school years

Adolescence

Adolescence

 

Early years

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Over the past three decades, Indonesia has significantly reduced mortality rates of children under five years of age. In 1960 the rate was 210 deaths per 1,000 live births; by 1991 this figure decreased to 97 per 1,000 births. Mortality rates for infants also fell from 128 per 1,000 births in1960 to just 35 per 1,000 by 2002.

Still, child mortality remains a serious problem in Indonesia. Reducing rates further will necessitate improving access to health care; improving the quality of delivery care and the management of childhood disease; improving environmental health, including the provision of clean water and sanitation; controlling communicable diseases; improving maternal nutrition; and creating a protective environment from children against risks of violence, abuse and exploitation.