Understanding How Gender Transformative Interventions Affect Adolescent Sexuality: A Cross-Cultural Perspective.

Purpose: Early adolescence is a critical period for developing healthy sexual and reproductive health (SRH) knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. However, a gap exists in interventions targeting very young adolescents that encompass the multilevel influences impacting healthy sexuality. This examination of two SRH programs in Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo will elucidate facilitators and barriers to improving young adolescent sexuality.

Short-Term Effects of a School-Based Comprehensive Sexuality Education Intervention Among Very Young Adolescents in Three Urban Indonesian Settings: A Quasi-Experimental Study.

Purpose: To evaluate the effects of a comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) intervention on short-term psychosocial outcomes related to healthy sexuality among very young adolescents in urban Indonesia.

Methods: A quasi-experimental study was conducted between 2018 and 2021 with students aged 10-14 years at 18 schools in Indonesia (Lampung, Denpasar, Semarang). Three schools per site were purposefully selected to receive the SEmangaT duniA RemajA intervention, a two-year, rights-based teacher-led CSE intervention delivered in classrooms (or online after the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak); and matched with three control schools.

Sexual wellbeing in early adolescence: a cross-sectional assessment among girls and boys in urban Indonesia.

Background: Early adolescence (ages 10-14) is a critical period of physical, cognitive, social and emotional development, which affect sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Yet, little is known about positive or healthy aspects of sexuality development during this period of life, especially in South East Asia where sexual norms remain restrictive. The objective of this study is to assess the prevalence and correlates of sexual wellbeing among early adolescent girls and boys ages 10-14 years in Indonesia.

Levels, trends and correlates of unmet need for family planning among postpartum women in Indonesia: 2007-2015.

Background: Although Indonesia has relatively high contraceptive prevalence, postpartum family planning (PP-FP) has not been a particular point of emphasis. This article reports the results of analyses undertaken in order to (1) better understand levels and trends in unmet need for family planning among postpartum women, (2) assess the extent to which unmet need is concentrated among particular population sub-groups, and (3) assess the policy priority that PP-FP should have in relation to other interventions.

Methods: The analyses were based on data from the 2007 and 2012 Indonesia Demographic and Health Surveys (IDHS) and the 2015 PMA2020 survey.