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Every day children in Indonesia face countless barriers
to their development and well-being.
Children embody hope, yet they are often the most vulnerable members
of community and are blocked from knowing life in all its fullness.
 
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Education

Improving the quality of primary education, as the gateway to higher-level education, should be on the top priority. The Indonesian government has been very successful in expanding the coverage and access to six-year primary education when it made the six-year primary schooling compulsory and practically free-of-charge in 1984 and then expanded again up nine years 10 years later.

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Disasters

Nearly all kinds of disasters, both natural and man-made ones, have hit Indonesia in the last 10 years. Flood, landslide, drought, earthquake, tsunami, volcano eruption, severe pollution, forest destruction, severe economic crisis, ethnic and racial conflict, religious conflict, terrorism, bombing and many more have claimed a lot of lives and property loss.

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Hunger & Malnutrition

Over five millions of Indonesian children are malnourished. Around twenty-eight millions children suffer from micronutrient deficiencies that impair their growth. This condition leads to death and disability among children.

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HIV and AIDS

Indonesia has among the fastest growth of HIV and AIDS carriers in Asia. At the end of 2007, the cases of HIV positive across the country was estimated at between 200,000 and 250,000 people. The number would likely jump further in the next few years.

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Unsafe Drinking Water

Clean water is still a luxury for more than a half of the country’s 225 millions of Indonesia’s population. Tap water has only reaches tens of millions of people living in the main cities. About 70 percent of the people, such as the poor in urban areas and those living in rural areas, rely largely on rain, river or underground water, which is prone to contamination.

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Poverty

Poverty remains one of the toughest problems to resolve. The Statistics Agency said the number of poor people in 2007 reached some 37 millions. Observers predicted the recent hikes of fuel, food and other basic commodity prices would increase the number of the poor to more than 40 million soon.

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Discrimination and Abuse

Discrimination and abuse are a reality in the lives of many children in the world to which Indonesian children are no exception. Children anywhere and anytime are exposed to many forms of discrimination and abuse.

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in the lives of children, families and communities living in poverty.
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