Stay home and make babies? As condoms and other forms of birth control are unavailable to a growing number of Indonesians during the Covid-19 pandemic, the world’s fourth-most populous nation may see a baby boom.
The National Population and Family Planning Board (BKKBN), the authority overseeing the country’s family planning programmes, found that in March, about 10% more of its acceptors face difficulty in accessing birth control, based on reports it received from 34 provinces. BKKBN has 28 million acceptors of its family planning methods nationwide.
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