IPPA was founded on the 23rd of December 1957 in Jakarta. The organisation was established focussing on the reproductive health rights of women and children, with a particular concern for reducing the rate of maternal morbidity. In 1967 IPPA became an official member of the International Planned Parenthood Federation in London and in 1969 IPPA Yogyakarta’s Chapter was set up.
In 1995, IPPA heightened its focus to brodaer issues of HIV, gender and sexuality identity issues, the role of religion in reproductive and sexual health, advocacy, research and more importantly, youth issues.
To realize the concept of three levels of advocacy (content of law, the structure of law and culture of law) IPPA Yogyakarta’s Chapter work with 75 schools and establish five youth forums, five teacher forums in five districts in Yogyakarta Province, working with women sex workers communities based organization, working with transgender community based organizations and working with 75 village communities in 75 villages in Yogyakarta province.
We also engage with 20 network in the regional (province) level, national and internationallevel with a variety of issues, ranging from issues of sexual and reproductive health and rights, sexual and gender based violence, the environment, disaster management, HIV & AIDS, Human Rights and in particular on the issue sexual and reproductive health of youth-friendly service.
To reach wider communities (underserve), we develop communication strategy both off line (face to face) and online media (to reach netizen). We develop 12 channels of media convergence and reach hundreds of thousands of netizens annually. We develop strategies for communication audit to determine the effectiveness of media campaigns to improve knowledge and encourage people to make changes in behavior.