AIC health researchers and collaborators reflect on the importance of engaging youth in adolescent health research. Today’s youth will be Indonesia’s ‘golden generation’ in 10 to 20 years’ time – driving the economy while job opportunities ride high on a demographic dividend… but only if they are healthy and thriving.
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People and research for better health across the Timor Sea
Research is often thought of as happening in abstract, remotely in a lab or at desk overwhelmed with journal articles and books. Rather, like ocean navigators of old, our health research community chartered little known territory for the research and ideas they carried with them, connecting across the Timor Sea to explore and drive change […]
More incentive needed for ‘missing middle’ of Indonesia’s national health insurance
Low uptake amongst Indonesia’s informal sector is compromising the country’s new national health insurance scheme (JKN, Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional), introduced in 2014 by the health wing of the then newly formed social security agency, the BPJS. An AIC study has released a set of policy and service-provision recommendations that researchers hope will fix this, and […]
Health promotion: young people are here and ready to engage
Nada Alichiah Hasan-Viljakainen is a young Indonesian woman and an advocate for healthier living. She was a youth representative at the AIC’s ‘Youth are our Future’ forum in Jakarta in September 2018. As a young adult, I am passionate about better health and wellbeing for myself, my generation and today’s children. I am concerned about how […]
Losing a loved one from heart attack – how early life prevention can save lives
Recently my eyes were opened about how to implement a healthy lifestyle in our society, and how important it is for disease prevention. This affects me as some of my family members suffer from NCDs. With a background in business and finance, I recently attended the AIC Health Cluster forum under the theme ‘Early-life non-communicable […]
“Little did I know initiating the bill was only 5% of the process”: Waiting in vain for follow-up on Indonesia’s Mental Health Law
Dr Nova Riyanti Yusuf is a Member of Parliament (2009-2014, 2018-2019), a psychiatrist, and the head of the Jakarta Psychiatric Association. She recently attended AIC Health’s mental health roundtable in Jakarta, and kindly agreed to reflect on her experiences as a lawmaker and mental health advocate. I didn’t expect to be left ‘waiting in vain’, […]
Roundtable feeds building momentum for better mental health and wellbeing in Indonesia
With global attention on mental health in October, a diverse group of individuals all focused on improving the mental health of Indonesia’s young people came together in Jakarta recently, and exciting opportunities for stronger advocacy emerged. A roundtable around mental health data needs for Indonesian adolescents was hosted by the Health Cluster of the Australia-Indonesia Centre […]
Building the Golden Generation: Health forum consolidates cross-sector innovation towards critical investment in health and education
The ‘Youth are our Future’ forum in Jakarta yielded new and strengthened links between researchers and NGOs and government agencies, particularly across health and education, whose partnership is vital for translating research into policy. This diverse group shared their commitments and vision for reducing the current and future burden from non-communicable diseases (NCDs). A key […]
Mental health matters for Indonesia’s farmers: education must complement laws and brochures
“We’ve had this mental health brochure since two years ago but I never use it because I am not confident in using it and I never had training on how to use it.” – A health promotion officer in a village in Polewali Mandar, West Sulawesi Recent research with cocoa farmers in Sulawesi has identified […]
Keeping Cigarettes out of Small Hands / Menjauhkan Rokok dari Tangan-Tangan Kecil
English A collaboration of researchers from The University of Sydney, Universitas Udayana in Bali and Universitas Airlangga in Banyuwangi, funded by The Australia-Indonesia Centre Health Cluster, mapped cigarette retailers and conducted an audit of their tobacco advertising and promotion right across Denpasar, Bali, between October 2017 and March 2018. On 26 April 2018 they shared […]