MDGs Guarantees Mothers

and Children Health

Student Discussion at Omah Limasan, June 3, 2014

The commitment of each country and the international community to achieve 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as a package of development and poverty reduction, should be a universal goal of all inhabitants in the world. This commitment includes some efforts to reduce more than half total of those suffering from hunger, to ensure all children complete their primary education, to eradicate gender inequality at all levels of education, to reduce child mortality by two third and to reduce half number of people having no access to have clean water in 2015.

Indonesia is involved in the efforts to implement MDGs. MDGs topic became one interesting issue in Stube-HEMAT Students’s Discussion held on Tuesday, June 3, 2014. Accompanied by DR. Murti Lestari, (board of Stube-HEMAT) as the speaker, the discussion highlighted the low level of mother and children health in Indonesia, even it is  far from the expected condition, although some how, it is admitted that the government has been able to reduce it. However, an attention to women and children health is crucial for a nation to survive.

The discussion was attended by Angga, from Social Movement Institute (SMI), that will be a participant in Inter-religion Youth Forum in Germany next June 2014, talking over MDGs; Gus Roy from Pondok Pesantren Tebu Ireng – Jombang, East Java; Rev. Bambang Sumbodo M.Min, and some activists of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta. This discussion helped students to describe the condition of Indonesia in implementing MDGs.

It is not secret that MDGs issues have not been well socialized and understood by public, even students. So it needs a complete review of the implementation of a program to synergize stakeholders in order to achieve the goals and it must be a commitment among countries in the world. (Loce)