Indonesia : Projects

• Children's Councils have been set up in rural villages and urban neighborhoods. This offers children the opportunity participate in the development of their community. It is a new phenomenon in Indonesia that children, as young as 11 years, talk with village officials and voice their opinions and express their needs and concerns
  
• Children's magazines: Plan Indonesia publishes two bimonthly children’s magazines, written both by and for children. One is for children up to 11 years and the other one is for teenagers. The board of editors is composed of children (four girls and one boy)
  
• The right to an identity: we provide advocacy to families and government departments on the need of civil registry (birth certificates) and the right of children to have their identity recorded at birth
  
• Healthcare: through the existing network of sub-village health posts we are setting up a system for counselling of parents and children
  
• Early childhood care: integrated with the same health posts, Early Childhood Centers have been created. This is especially significant because pre-school education is still rare especially in villages
  
• Promoting children's rights: we actively promote the rights of children through awareness campaigns
  
• Family groups: we promote and stimulate the creation of Family Groups with the objective of collectively improving their economic situation. Income generating activities are done through those groups and a revolving credit fund is one of the assets of the groups. There are groups for farmers, fishermen, laborers and street children, and they help their members to access existing markets
  
• Improved communications: collecting and sharing information is one of the most important activities that need to be done in order to develop. Assisting children and families in obtaining access to the outside world is achieved through several media, such as the Internet and libraries, magazines, exposure trips and also through building a relationship with the Plan Sponsors
  
• 'Traditional' interventions such as funding mother-and-child care, and health monitoring for the under 5 year olds has been and will remain part of our development program in Indonesia and also improving of potable water systems, waste disposal and environmental sanitation