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Using evidence and technology since the 1980s to keep women and children healthy.

  • During its first three years, the MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership project contributed to a sustained decrease in institutional maternal mortality ratio in project-supported facilities, falling from 258 in its first year to 174.8 by the third year.
  • Jhpiego provided technical assistance to adapt the World Health Organization’s manual, Managing Complications in Pregnancy and Childbirth: A Guide for Midwives and Doctors, for use in Indonesia; this adaptation serves as the national standard for maternal and newborn health care.
  • Jhpiego launched an SMS (text message) service to provide pregnant women and new mothers with information on reproductive health, pregnancy, childbirth and care for newborns, infants and early toddlers, gaining more than 300,000 subscribers from 284 districts.
  • Technical assistance provided by Jhpiego to maternal and newborn health (MNH) technical working groups under the MOMENTUM Private Healthcare Delivery project led to development of 24 policies (five provincial regulations and 19 district regulations) on MNH issues. These working groups have also successfully advocated for 60 billion Indonesian Rupiahs in local government budget commitments for MNH.

Our Technical Areas in Indonesia

Our Work in Indonesia

MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership

Moving Integrated, Quality Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services to Scale (MOMENTUM) is a suite of projects, funded by USAID, that aims to accelerate reductions in maternal, newborn and child mortality and morbidity in high-burden countries by increasing host country commitment and capacity to provide high-quality, integrated health care. Each of the projects has a specific focus area; together they provide a comprehensive, flexible package of support for countries as they overcome context-specific health challenges towards sustainable development. The five-year, Jhpiego-led project focuses on: 1) providing targeted technical and capacity development assistance to our missions, partner countries and local organizations; and 2) contributing to global technical leadership and policy dialogue for improved maternal, newborn and child health, voluntary family planning and reproductive health outcomes. Jhpiego’s 12 sub-partners under this project are: Save the Children, Johns Hopkins University International Vaccine Access Center, The Manoff Group, Quicksand, Matchboxology, BAO Systems, Avenir Health, McKinsey and Company, PACT, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Christian Connections for International Health and Ubora Quality Institute. In Indonesia, the project partners with the Ministry of Health to reduce preventable deaths among mothers and babies at public and private health care facilities by improving access and quality of health services across all districts in East Nusa Tenggara and select districts in the four provinces of North Sumatra, Banten, East Java and South Sulawesi.

MOMENTUM Private Healthcare Delivery

This global project, also under the MOMENTUM suite of awards (see above), supports countries—including Indonesia—to improve the quality of care provided by the private health care sector and increase opportunities for a total market approach to quality services, products and information in the areas of: maternal, newborn and child health. The project is led by PSI and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. Under this award in Indonesia, Jhpiego is focusing on maternal and newborn health services in private health care settings to: 1) improve the quality of these services delivered by primary and referral private health care providers in targeted/select areas; 2) strengthen national policy and regulatory framework on quality of care and for engagement with the private sector; and 3) improve coordination between the public health system and private providers at the district level in targeted/select provinces.

The people we serve

For Midwife Masri, an Unexpected Exam Turns into a Career Calling

Unlike many nurses and midwives, Masri Ndoen’s path to becoming a midwife was anything but expected. Cajoled by her friends to tag along as they took the entry exam for nursing school, Masri decided to take the test herself—and was the only one among her friends to pass it. That paved the way for a

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A Double Savings 

Providing postpartum family planning services to women immediately after birth results in significant savings for every dollar invested in the lifesaving intervention, a cost-benefit analysis by Jhpiego found.  The analysis, conducted in Indonesia to address financial barriers to private facilities providing postpartum family planning (PPFP), showed an estimated $70 saved for every $1 invested. The

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Kaders Cater to Moms and Babies

  Pawana Meet Pawana, 38, a kader, or community health worker, in Sadeng village, in Indonesia’s Bogor district, which is south of Jakarta on the island of Java. She became a kader at 13 and, ever since, has dedicated her life to the health and wellbeing of the women, children and families of her village.

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Better Business Management Improves Family Planning Services

When Mutiara Bunda Hospital, which opened in 2005 as a small health care facility, became a general hospital in 2018, its new management had its work cut out. Located in Indonesia’s Brebes district, which has the second highest number of maternal deaths in Central Java province (from Central Java Province Family Health Program Data for

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A USAID-funded Initiative in Indonesia Shows the Way 
toward Reducing Maternal and Newborn Deaths

A difficult labor left Kadiatou Diallo with the pain of stillbirth and the shame of fistula. Surgical repair services at Guinea’s Kissidougou Hospital offered her healing and hope.

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SMSBunda: A Texting Service That Saves Lives

In Indonesia, the USAID-funded SMSBunda program provides timely health messages via text for pregnant women to help ensure a safe birth. Read how one Indonesian woman averted complications from hypertension.

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Three Births, Three Complications, Three Lives Saved

Jakarta, Indonesia—Restiani was just 28 weeks pregnant when she went into labor. Her husband, Martudilah, drove her by motorbike on the 30-minute journey to their public hospital where she gave birth to a premature, underweight boy, Edgar. Hamriani was much further along—38 weeks. She awoke one night with a throbbing headache and realized she was

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Country Contact

Maryjane Lacoste, Country Director/Senior Technical Director

Tel. 62.021.2920.1500

Tempo Scan Tower, 21st Floor

Jl HR Rasuna Said Kav 3-4 Kuningan

Jakarta, Indonesia 12950

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Pfizer Foundation

United Nations Foundation

USAID

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