Teenagers demand proper sex education

More knowledge will reduce spread of HIV/AIDS, teen group says

Stefanus Tartono, Yogyakarta
Indonesia
October 7, 2011

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Two representatives from the Teen Forum read out their petition at the end of the national meeting

The Fourth National Meeting on HIV/AIDS wound up yesterday with teenagers calling for proper sex education to help prevent the spread of the killer disease.

Their call came in a statement read out by two representatives of the Teen Forum group at the end of the October 3-6 meeting, jointly organized by the National AIDS Eradication Commission and several international organizations including UNICEF and the UN Program on HIV/AIDS.

“[We] urge the government and relevant groups to offer comprehensive or integrated sex education and a friendly health care program to Indonesian teenagers,” they said before more than 2,000 participants.

A curriculum must be drafted so that it is sensitive to the country’s different cultures, they added. For the health care program, the statement said it should stress issues regarding reproductive health.

The Teen Forum is a group comprising junior and senior high school students who have been educated about HIV/AIDS.

In her closing speech, KPA Secretary Nafsiah Mboy voiced support for the teenagers’ demands, adding that healthcare programs should be open to all.

As of June this year there were 29,012 people living with HIV/AIDS in Indonesia, according to Ministry of Health statistics. The ministry also revealed that 55% percent of all new HIV infections came through heterosexual sex.

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Joseph santiago CMF

First of all, Parental role and their guidance are necessary for
teens at all homes. Bible knowledge and value education or moral education is necessary
at parish level. Proper sex education and health are necessary at school and
college levels. Even though people are well educated, it is the women who
are the most adversely affected section of
the society.
Biologically women are twice more likely
to become infected with HIV. Mostly they are poor, unemployed, oppressed and marginalized sections of
the population.
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In that thing I’m not really sure with that, in the other side of my mind it tells me that it’s necessary to teach kids about it but in the other side tells me that in their age they don’t have to know about it yet.