Online Tool Teaches Indonesians Sex Education
November 30, 2011
A screen grab of zoyaamirin.com, a site for sex education in Indonesia.
Although young Indonesians might be familiar with the latest fashions, movies and electronic gadgets, when it comes to basic knowledge about their bodies, they are not as savvy
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Indonesia has one of the fastest growing rates of HIV transmission in Asia, but the majority of Indonesian youth could not tell you why. Data from the country's health ministry indicates that some 75 percent of Indonesians aged between 15 and 49 believe HIV is transmitted by mosquitoes.
Like many of her peers, Ariyanti Tarman, 26, says she did not have any formal sex education while in school.
"The only thing close is biology class and it was about reproduction and that's it," said Tarman. "So I got information about sex and issues related to sex such as HIV and STDs from newspapers, magazines, the Internet and also from movies."
The world's most populous Muslim nation is socially conservative and, for many, discussing sex is taboo.
But, a more liberal approach to sex is putting pressure on traditional attitudes. A recent global survey found that nearly 40 percent of Indonesian teenagers have had sex and almost half of them do not use contraception with new partners.
With the government reluctant to implement sex education into the national curriculum, Zoya Amirin, a prominent female sex psychologist, is taking the matter into her own hands.
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