Decentralization Family Planning Programs in the Era of Regional Autonomy

Abstract

Family Planning program is very important because it can suppress the birth rate and minimize the number of people , but in the era of reform and implemented regional autonomy, family planning programs can not run smoothly, it is because not all local government district / city committed to the program of population and family plans. The purpose of the study was to analyze the decentralization family planning program in the Era of Regional Autonomy in District / City .The research method uses       Qualitative and descriptive method, and also using secondary data. Research results the existence  that family planning is not a priority in developing regions, and the materialistic  perspective will only make this program further drown. Efforts to revive the program can be done through advocacy approaches and instensif again. We recommend that all elements of policy makers, especially (regent / Mayor) had the foresight and understanding that family planning is a long term investment remains conserved.The management of the Family Planning program in the Regency/City in the era of regional autonomy is no longer carried out by the agency that handles the Family Planning Program, but has been combined with other programs, from the organizational structure there has been a change, previously responsible to the province, now entirely to the respective regents/mayors. The position and function of the Provincial Population and Family Planning Agency are less advantageous because this institution is still a vertical institution (centralization), but also  this institution must deal with regional institutions that already have their own paradigms in the organization.