Falling fertility in Indonesia : success in national family planning


 

Publication Date: January 1989

Publisher: East-West Center

Author(s): Bryant Robey

Research Area: Population and demographics

Type: Brief

Coverage: Indonesia

Abstract:

Results from the recently published 1987 National Indonesia Contraceptive Prevalence Survey provide evidence of rapidly falling fertility in Indonesia over the past two decades. The most important reason for this fertility decline is a dramatic increase in the use of contraceptives.