4 Comments on “Fertility Rates in Indonesia”

1. Bas Says:
   February 28th, 2007 at 12:35 am

   The percentage of Islam people in Indonesian has always been higher for political and national stability reasons. Good.

   It reminds me of what I discovered about 10 years ago. All the people I met add themselves a few centimeters when I asked them how tall they were. Many were taller than I in theory but in reality I was taller (I am only 170 cm). Strange, so I try to find out why they always thought (and still think) they were taller than they really are.

   What I discovered is they think they are taller because they are told they are taller. And why medical authorities, doctors, schools told them they are taller? Because they got instruction to do so. At Soeharto days, it seems it was a shame that Indonesian people were the smallest in Asia (and in the world if I believe what I read once in the Musee de l’homme in Paris). So the Departemen kesehatan received intructions. Adding a few centimeters won’t hurt nobody, it’s even good for the egos and it will make international statistic better. They must have done the same for economics stats.

   Well, as we all know reality and facts are not what matters in Indonesia. Measurement stats, Religion stats, who cares if they are right or not? Yang penting Bapak senang!

2. Dimp Says:
   March 2nd, 2007 at 5:45 am

   I think we should be thinking of increasing the “quality” of the people not the “quantity” of the people.

   Fertility rate is one thing that can affect population, but immigration policy also takes part in the population growth, some countries actually relies more to the immigration policy than fertility rate. But again I think the government should be concentrating more on the “quality” not the “quantity”.

3. pj_bali Says:
   March 2nd, 2007 at 12:43 pm

   Declining birthrates are somewhat representative of a higher standard of living enjoyed by most Indonesians today compared with 1967. People are quite possibly getting married later and putting off having that first child in the hope of saving up a bit of money before they have that child. Future imbalances in population can always be offset by immigration – this is what is happening in the west now. Most of the population growth in western countries is attributable to immigration. Speaking of immigration does any know what kind of immigration policy Indonesia has or for that matter the number and ethnicity of today’s immigrants to Indonesia?

4. Dimp Says:
   March 2nd, 2007 at 2:24 pm

   I think the immigration policy consists of this two questions:

   1. Do you want to become Indonesian citizen, explain WHY? Are you insane, there are a lot of people who want to get out.

   2. Do you want to leave Indonesia for good? How much can you afford to bribe the Indonesian officials.

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