THE open discussion at Karangmojo Village Hall in Ponorogo, East Java, March 12, had become heated. That afternoon, over 30 young mothers, some holding toddlers, were closely studying the information regarding the high rate of infant and maternal mortality in Indonesia. The speaker was Nunung Fatma, from the Jakarta administration's Indonesian Women's Coalition.

Traveling all the way there from Jakarta, Fatma had been invited by the organizer, Bin