Indonesia

Each year 163,000 children die before their fifth birthday. More than 50% of the population live on less than $2 a day and 13 million children don’t have enough good food to eat.

• We’re helping almost half a million children get a better education
• We’re part of an emergency response team on permanent standby in case of natural disaster
• We’re helping to change the situation of half a million children who are living in institutional care

Save the Children in Indonesia

We're focusing on re-establishing services for children in tsunami-affected communities, saving children’s lives, improving education, and protecting children from harm — especially those in institutional care.

We're helping children get a better education

We have been training teachers to use teaching methods that get their pupils really involved in learning, and we’ve promoted alternative forms of classroom discipline so they don’t resort to harsh punishment. Our mid-term review of the effect of the training showed that pupils are now more involved in their learning, and teachers are less likely to use corporal punishment.

To enable more children to go to school we’ve built and repaired schools in remote rural areas. We also worked with school committees to find ways to make it easier for all children to attend, whatever their needs.

We're taking care of children in emergencies

Since the tsunami of December 2004, Indonesia has endured earthquakes, volcaniceruptions, another smaller tsunami, and floods. Our 50-strong emergency response team is on permanent standby. In the past year, we’ve also trained education project staff in how to respond in an emergency, so that we can ensure that education is always an integral part of the help we give children in the aftermath of a disaster.
We’re helping children whose families can’t care for them

An estimated half a million children in Indonesia spend their entire childhood in childcare institutions. We’re now part of a Ministry working group to develop a framework for regulating childcare institutions and to draw up minimum standards of care.

The Indonesian government has adopted a policy stating that care within a family setting will be the first option for children, whether with their own immediate or extended family, or a substitute; and that institutional care will be a last resort.

We’re continuing to work together to make the changes necessary to implement this policy, in particular to ensure that funds are directed to support children in their families and communities.





-----The Commission for Indonesia Children Education&Health-----