UNMET NEED FOR FAMILY PLANNING ON ELIGIBLE COUPLE IN INDONESIA: 2007 IDHS DATA ANALYSIS

Abstract

In Indonesia, family planning program was succes .
The successful achievement of Contraceptive
Prevalence Rate (CPR) numbers can reduce the
Total Fertility Rate (TFR) of Indonesia. In 1971
Indonesia TFR estimate of 5.6 (PSKK, 2004) and
then decreased to 2.4 (in 2002 ) , fell further to 2.3
(in 2007) (Hull & Hartanto , 2009) . Unfortunately ,
the percentage of the unmet need for family
planning (unmet needs KB ) in Indonesia is still high
. Based on data from Indonesian Demographic and
Health Survey (IDHS) unmet need for family
planning Indonesia reached 13% ( 1991 ) , 11 % (
1994 ) , 9.2 % ( 1997 ) and 8.6 % ( 2002 ) (PSKK,
2004) . In 2007 unmet need for family planning by
9.1 % ( BPS & Macro International , 2007), is still
far from the target of Rencana Pembangunan
Jangka Menengah Nasional ( RPJMN ) 2004-2009 ,
which limits the number unmet need for family
planning in Indonesia is not more than 6 % (
President RI 2006 ) .
Unmet need for family planning has a direct impact
on a country's TFR . If unmet need family planning
can be eliminated , there will be a sharp decline in
birth rate, along only consider contraception factor
alone ( Mueller & Germain , 2007). Based on
RPJMN 2004-2009, target of TFR Indonesia expects
no more than 2.2 ( Presiden RI , 2006) . Therefore ,
the handling of unmet need for family planning are
strong reasons for the planning and
implementation of effective family planning
program ( Bongaarts & Bruce , 1995; Sedgh et al. ,
2007) .
Ashford (2003) describes when in the developing
world, more than 100 million women, or 17% of all
women married status unmet need for family
planning. Because of the magnitude of unmet need
family planning, so it is important to handling
unmet need for family planning immediately.
Unmet need for family planning caused unexected
pregnancy (unintended pregnancy) (Haub &
Herstad, 2002), which can lead to unsafe abortions
(unsafe abortion) (Bizuneh et al., 2008). Unsafe
abortion is responsible for 11% of maternal deaths
in Indonesia and the world average of 13%
(Wilopo, 2009). Seeing the magnitude of the
unmet need for family planning, it is necessary to
research related to the incidence of unmet need
for family planning on eligible couples in Indonesia.