Indonesia Health Profile 2010

Indonesia is a country located in Southeast Asia, geographically between twocontinents, Asia and Australia as well as between the Indian and Pacific Ocean.Astronomically Indonesia lies between North latitude line 6 o to 11 o South latitudelines, and 95 o to 141 o east longitude line that includes the circuit of the island fromSabang to Merauke. Thus, Indonesia is at a cross position, which have significance inrelation to the economy.Indonesia is the largest archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. According todata sourced from National Coordination Board of Survey and Mapping (Ind:Bakosurtanal), the number of islands in Indonesia were 17,504 islands. The numberof islands including those in the estuary and the river, and river deltas. This strategicposition has a very extremely influence on the cultural, social, political, and economic.This fact makes Indonesia has a diversity of cultures and customs with characteristicsthat differ from each other. Diversity in those various aspects are also associated withbehavior in health aspect.In 2010, Indonesia administrativelly is divided into 33 provinces, 497 districts(399 districts and 98 municipalities), 6,598 subdistricts and 75,638 villages.Distribution of administrative area in Indonesia in 2010 can be seen in Annex 2.1.In this chapter general description and behavior of Indonesia people in 2010will be described which include: state of the population, economic situation,environmental conditions, and behaviors related to health.A. DEMOGRAPHIC SITUATIONAccording to the Population Census Year 2010, number of Indonesiapopulation was 237,641,326 people, consisted of 119,630,913 males and 118,010,413females (Annex 2.2). Comparing to Population Census Year 2000, number ofpopulation was 205,132,458 people, so that number of Indonesia population hasincreased about 32.5 million people with population growth rate per year 1.49%.Based on provincial level, population number has increased with various populationgrowth rate. The lowest population growth rate 0.37% was in Central Java and thehighest population growth rate 5.46% was in Papua.9