Indonesia Health Profile 2010

level/independent posyandu). In 2009 there were 266,827 posyandu, so the ratio ofposyandu to villages was 3.55 posyandu per village. More information on posyandu ratioby province in 2009 can be seen in the Graph 5.13 below.GRAPH 5.13RATIO OF POSYANDU TO VILLAGE BY PROVINCE IN INDONESIA2009Source: DG of Community Health, MoH RIPoskesdes is a unit of health effort community based (Ind=UKBM) in the villagein order to bring the provision of basic health services for rural communities, in otherwords as one manifestation of the efforts to facilitate community access to healthservices. The main activities of poskesdes are early observation and vigilance(surveillance of risk behaviors, environmental and other health problems), handlinghealth emergencies and disaster preparedness and health services. The servicesprovide also includes delivery assistance and maternal and children care services.The existence of poskesdes is one indicator of a rural village called desa siaga. Datastates that in 2009 there were 51,996 units of poskesdes/desa siaga. Ratio ofposkesdes/desa siaga to village in the year 2009 was 0.69. For information, number ofdesa siaga in DKI Jakarta are number of RW­siaga and number of villages in WestSumatra are number of desa siaga plus nagari siaga. Graph 5.14 presents the ratio ofnumber of poskesdes to village by province in 2009 (excluding DKI Jakarta and WestSumatera). While details data on the number of UKBMs by province in 2009 can beseen in Annex 5.10.143