69 Population Review Volume 45, Num

69 Population Review Volume 45, Number 1, 2006 Type: Book Review People, Population, and Policy in Indonesia Edited by: Terence H. Hull Publisher: ISEAS/Equinox Year: 2005 Pages: 185 Reviewer: Graeme Hugo, Ph.D. (graeme.hugo@adelaide.edu.au) Affiliation: Federation Fellow, Professor of Geography, Director, The National Centre for Social Applications of Geographic Information Systems, The University of Adelaide The story of the massive shifts, which have occurred in Indonesia?s demography over the last half century, is an important one and this book, is a useful contribution to the literature concerned with it. It is one of four books produced to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Ford Foundation?s involvement in Indonesia which focus on the development issues addressed by Ford over this period. The book contains three substantial chapters and a brief introduction and postscript by the editor. It is predominantly an informed perspective on the changes which have occurred in fertility, family formation, reproductive health, the role and status of women and marriage in Indonesia since it achieved independence in 1945. The first chapter by Terry and Valerie Hull is entitled ?From Family Planning to Reproductive Health Care : A Brief History?. The Hulls have been perceptive researchers and observers of fertility and family change in Indonesia as well as wider social, economic and political shifts for more than three of the five decades under review in the volume and uniquely well qualified to write this history. It is required reading for any student of Indonesian society and economy as well as for demographers. The chapter analyses the shifts which occurred from the work of Indonesia?s family planning pioneers, through the Sukarno years when requests to establish a national family planning program were rejected to the strong commitment of the Suharto regime to reducing fertility and the post 1998 period. The key role of BKKBN (National Family Coordinating Board) in mobilising the support and acceptance of the community and changing the thinking of Indonesians to support the ?small healthy, prosperous family? (p. 47) is analysed.