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344 SESSION V
Picture 1.b
Source: researcher documentation.
Picture 1.a is a model kitchen where children can have
problems with. This is part of the Kidsafe Program where
parents learn the dangers that can be faced by their
children in their own home. This program is created
in order to reduce the rate of child’s incidents in their
home. Besides preparing models such as safe kitchen,
safe bathroom, and safe dining room, the community
nurse also gives tips and tricks on how to treat their
babies (as in picture 1.b). The two pictures above show
how community education in Japan are conducted by
the PHC to their clients before they undertake babies
health check-up.
After the check-up, mothers can also come to the
healthy babies’ food class. See picture 2.
Picture 2: Community Education After Baby’s
Check-Up.
Picture 2.a
Picture 2.b
Ref lections on the Human Condition: Change, Conflict and Modernity
The Work of the 2004/2005 API Fellows
Source: researcher documentation.
In this class, parents can learn how to cook foods that
are good for their babies. Picture 2.a shows the class
where parents can learn how to cook healthy foods
and picture 2.b. shows the variety of foods that can be
cooked by mothers that are good for baby’s health. The
combination of community education undertaken by
the PHC’s workers is part of the missing community
education in Posyandu (Integrated Health Services for
Children) in Indonesia. In Posyandu, health workers
mostly deliver only scaling and immunization services.
Malaysian Strategy in Dealing with Global Changes
As a developed country, Japan developed many
services for children as part of the Angel Plan; while
as a developing country, Malaysia focused on efforts
to boosts the economic development by investing its
resources on strategic technological development and
education since global challenges will be related to
Information and Communication Technology. This
situation is very similar to Indonesia. However, the
Malaysian economy is stronger than Indonesia at the
time of the financial and economic crisis. Indonesian
economy is based on pseudo-capitalism where there
are many projects undertaken in connection with the
political elite; this makes the economic condition in
Indonesia vulnerable.
In relation to the welfare development models, the
Malaysian government use the rational economic
approach, which stated “good policy is policy which makes
good economic sense, and if the economy is healthy all will
benefit”. From this standpoint, the government tries
to strengthen their basic economic structure through
human investment and technological building. For
human investment, the government sends talented
persons abroad to study in disciplines which can fill