Indonesia’s Missing Millions: Erasing Discrimination in Birth Certification in Indonesia’s Missing Millions

Cate Sumner

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Abstract: Indonesia’s rate of birth registration is imprecisely measured but is low, especially among the poorer, rural, population. At the same time, the country has developed a system of population registration with wide, if not universal, coverage. In addition, under current regulations that link legal recognition of paternity to the existence of a legal marriage, many children can only receive a birth certificate with the name of the mother. Such a credential is widely seen as less than desirable, creating a situation where children are discriminated against on the basis of the marital status of their parents. The paper draws on the results of large-scale surveys that illustrate the difficulties that the “dual-track†registration system can create, especially for poor people.

Keywords: Indonesia; discrimination; birth certification; mission millions; parents; poor people; marital status; birth certificate; mother; registration; population; legal recognition; children; discriminated (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-11
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