CCP has been working in Indonesia for over 15 years on a variety of programs including family planning, reproductive health, safe water, hygiene improvement, maternal and neonatal health, safe motherhood, environmental health, including coral reef protection, and most recently post-tsunami health and avian flu. CCP works with in-country partners to develop, implement and evaluate both national and regional health advocacy and communication programs utilizing mass media, interpersonal communication/counseling and community mobilization to bring about behavior change. CCP partners with ministries of environment, health, information, social welfare, education and women’s affairs; advertising and research agencies; local government units; local and international non-governmental organizations; academic institutions; private voluntary health organizations; associations of health care professionals; women's groups; and media and journalists’ organizations to implement USAID, UNICEF, World Bank as well as privately funded strategic communication projects. A summary of these projects are below.

Current Projects

Water and Development Alliance (WADA): The Community "Love Water" Program
The Water and Development Alliance (WADA) worked in the Bekasi district in West Java, Indonesia to support sustainable management of watersheds, outreach and education on water issues, water and sanitation service provision, and household water treatment promotion.

Aman Tirta (Safe Water Systems)
The Aman Tirta program is a 2-year USAID funded program to increase access to Safe Water through Point of Use water treatment. The program uses a private public partnership model to create a first ever fully sustainable commercial model for Safe Water Systems.

PuRelief
CCP is leading a community level social marketing program to promote Procter and Gamble's PuR clean water product in two areas of Indonesia.

STARH (Sustaining Technical Achievements in Reproductive Health/Family Planning)
The STARH program focuses on developing Indonesia's capacity to provide high-quality family planning and reproductive health services and informed choice of methods and services.

Avian Flu Preparedness
With support from USAID and private sector partner, Unilever, CCP designed and developed avian flu communication materials that were broadcasted nationally.  The campaign highlighted the potential hazards of handling chickens, handling raw chicken meat, food preparation, and cleaning eggs and urged the public to wash their hands properly, with soap, at critical times as an effective measure of preventing illness.  

Environmental Services Project
CCP is supporting Development Alternatives Inc. under the 5-year, USAID-funded, Environmental Services Project (ESP) by developing a strategic health and hygiene campaign.  The campaign will promote environment water sources protection and hygiene and sanitation behavior change

GLEEH or “Clean” in Banda Aceh   
Working with CARE/Indonesia, CCP will lead GLEEH, Aceh local terminology for "Clean", a two-year behavioral change communication initiative to improve behaviors on hygiene improvement includes hand washing with soap, safe water system, sanitation, food hygiene and deworming. GLEEH is a continuation and expansion of a three-month emergency communication program started by CARE and CCP soon after the tsunami struck the coast of Banda Aceh.

To read more about current projects in Indonesia, please go to the HCP Indonesia page.

Recent Projects

Improving Basic Health Behaviors in Post-tsunami Aceh
With support from the UNICEF Health sector in Band Aceh, CCP designed a comprehensive health communication program promoting breastfeeding, safe water/boiling, maternal health, malaria, hand washing with soap, and sanitation.  This program ended in 2005.

Coalition for Healthy Indonesia
The Coalition for Healthy Indonesia (KuIS) has the goal of improving Indonesians' health status by 2010. The centerpiece of the program is empowering individuals, households and communities to determine their own health needs and priorities. At the request of USAID, CCP provided technical assistance to assist KuIS in building multi-sectoral partnerships that support preventive health advocacy and communication programs aimed towards increasing awareness of healthy behaviors and promoting public policies that convey health as a priority. This program ended in 2005.

Maternal and Neonatal Health (MNH) program
MNH promoted maternal and neonatal survival through behavior change interventions in favor of improved birth practices and emergency preparedness. The program promoted increased readiness of a 'Bidan Siaga' (alert midwife), 'Warga Siaga' (alert citizen) and 'Suomi Siaga' (alert husband). The MNH Program ended in 2004.

COREMAP
The Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Program (COREMAP) used a combination of social marketing, public relations, local entertainment-education events, and media advocacy to increase support for and awareness of protecting coral reefs. The program ended in 2002.

Recent Publications

The Center for Communications Programs is pleased to announce its recent publication, A 35-year Commitment to Indonesian Family Planning: BKKBN and USAID’s Historic Partnership. It summarizes the innovative public health strategies that have earned Indonesia the reputation of having one of the most successful family planning programs in the world.   Indonesia’s quality family planning program helped empower millions of its citizens to make informed decisions about the number of children they wanted and about contraceptive use.  In a predominantly Muslim country, the support for family planning by the majority of the Islamic spiritual leaders (ulama) was particularly critical to the program’s success.

The results of Indonesia’s broad acceptance of family planning program are impressive.   In the late 1960s when Indonesia launched its family planning program, the total fertility rate was 5.9; by 2003 it was 2.6 children per woman.

This publication will allow others both to better understand the Indonesian experience and to apply its lessons learned to other national contexts.  Copies of the publication are available in both English and Bahasa Indonesia.