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Indonesia

By: Cyndi Lynn Sheridan

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Millennium Development Goals

- Eight specific international goals

    • Poverty and Hunger
    • Universal Primary Education
    • Gender Equality
    • Child Health
    • Maternal Health
    • Combat HIV/Aids
    • Global Partnerships
    • Environmental Sustainability

- Established in 2000

    • There are 193 United Nations and 23 International Organizations that have agreed to achieve these goals by the year 2015.

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Poverty and Hunger (Indonesia)

- More than 50% of Indonesia's 240 million population live off of $2 per day.

- In February of 1999, 23.43% of the nation's population was considered poor. This is equivalent to approximately 47.97 million people. However, by July of 2005, this statistics decreased to only 35.1 million people.

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Education (Indonesia)

- The Indonesian school system is the third largest education system in the Asia region, and the fourth largest in the entire world.

- According to the World Bank statistics, "education spending double in Indonesia between 2000 and 2006. In 2007, spending on education was more than for any other sector reaching an equivalent of US $14 billion."

- Indonesia's youth literacy rate is a total of 99.42%.

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Gender Equality (Indonesia)

- Ending gender inequality will enhance development within...

  • field labor
  • human rights
  • education
  • jobs
  • health

- Estimated that 3.9 million women deaths occur each year due to insufficient medical attention.

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Child Health (Indonesia)

- 28% of Indonesian children are underweight.

- 44% of children suffer from stunted growth

- Infant mortality rate: 35 per 100 due to

  • acute respiratory infections
  • prenatal complications
  • diarrhoea

- Save the Children!

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Maternal Health (Indonesia)

- Indonesia needs to decrease their maternal death to 102 per 100,000 by 2015.

- About 30% of maternal deaths are caused by obstetric hemorrhaging.

-Three steps to achieving MDGs:

    • improve global partnerships
    • strategic improvement
    • advance technology

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Combat HIV/Aids (Indonesia)

- First case of HIV was reported in 1987.

- What is UNAIDS?

- People most at risk include:

    • Drug abusers
    • Sex workers
    • Homosexual men
    • Infants

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Global Partnerships (Indonesia)

- Foreign Debt to GDP decreased

  • 24.6% (1996) -> 10.9% (2009)

- The Jakarta Commitment (2009)

  • 26 development partners

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Environmental Sustainability (Indonesia)

- Palm Oil Production:

    • cheap and effective
    • 7 million acres of available land
    • leading cause of orangutan extinction

- Indonesia is one of the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases due to:

    • deforestation
    • conversion of land