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Spreading facts, not fear, in the fight against Coronavirus

In the western Indonesian city of Bandar Lampung, Melva Christien Manurung (23) is worried that young people aren’t prepared for the rapidly spreading coronavirus. “Misleading information is sowing fear and confusion in our communities,” she says. Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous nation, confirmed its f...

WhatsApp pilot helps tsunami response

Palu, Indonesia. When disasters strike, how quickly assistance reaches you can be the difference between life and death., The Indonesian archipelago — the world’s fourth most populous country with 266 million people — is constantly at risk of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods and tsunamis. Located in the Pac...

13 November 2018

Health workers harness real-time data to support Indonesia’s largest immunization campaign

Indonesia has the fourth highest number of underimmunized children in the world — 1.9 million. It also has a government determined to take action to improve immunization coverage. Together with UNICEF, the Government of Indonesia saw the potential that real-time information could have in supporting the country’s l...

17 October 2017

#GirlsTakeOver: Adolescents Take Action to End Child Marriage

It wasn’t out of the ordinary for Indonesia’s Minister of Women Empowerment and Child Protection to deliver a speech for International Day of the Girl Child. Except that this year, the minister was a 19-year-old girl. It started a few days before, when 21 adolescents aged 15-19 years from across Indonesia conven...

21 September 2017

Real-time Scorecards for Vaccination Targets

“Akhsan’s mother works at the garment factory during the day, I work nights,” says Fathul in Regunang, Central Java, a shady, rolling village in sight of Mt. Merbabu, a 3,145m volcano rising slowly from the hills. “It’s just me here today.” He and 3-year-old son Akhsan are the lone father/child pair on the lawn o...

Why Big Data is Important to Youth

World Telecommunication and Information Society Day was celebrated on 17 May 2017. The theme for this year’s day was “Big Data for Big Impact” and focused on the power of Big Data for development. To commemorate the day, Mohammad Ilham Akbar Junior, a United Nations (UN) Youth Volunteer with the United Nations Chi...

Mobile Health Pilot Boosting Immunization in Urban Java

The line curls out of the door and into the alley, where dozens of mothers stand patiently, cradling newborns under an early morning drizzle. “ I’ll wait for the line to thin out and take my baby in later, ” Eka* told UNICEF East Asia and the Pacific (EAPRO) Regional Director Karin Hulshof in her doorstep during K...

30 January 2017

Designing Solutions for Indonesia’s Children

Jakarta: When Indonesia’s yearly agricultural fires start up each fall, belching acrid haze through Borneo, Sumatra and over borders, the air one breathe, turns into a health hazard: Schools shut down, thousands fall ill, and some will die from respiratory ailments. Few dispute that haze is deadly, but solutions h...

Indonesian Scouts Speak Up Through U-Report

Jakarta, 25 August 2016 – “ I just signed up to U-Report! ” 14-year-old Karin from Nusa Tenggara Timur province in East Indonesia says enthusiastically. “ I want to share my opinion because most adults do not listen to us children. ” During the weeklong National Jamboree that just came to an end in Cibubur, which ...

Amplifying the Voices of Youth

There are over 27,000 active U-Reporters across Indonesia. These are young people who have raised their voices to influence national and even global discussions on issues that are relevant to them including S ustainable Development Goals and National Strategy on the Elimination of Violence in Childhood . Coll...

16 December 2015

U-Report Indonesia Officially Launched

UNICEF has officially launched U-Report Indonesia : an innovative new platform that gives young people the chance to speak up on issues that affect their lives. Hundreds of Indonesian youth attended the Jakarta launch event, where members of the UNICEF Indonesia Innovation Lab explained how the mobile phone techn...

03 December 2015

UNICEF Partners with Indonesia's Scouts

Things were bustling at the Headquarters of Indonesia’s Pramuka ( Scouts ) in Jakarta ahead of a much-anticipated event last week: The signing of a partnership agreement between the Pramuka and UNICEF Indonesia. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), signed by Pramuka Chairman Adhyaksa Dault and UNICEF Indonesia R...