When Midwives and Dukun Join Hands
Cooperation between midwives and dukun (traditional midwife) succeeded in significantly lowering the mortality rate both for infants and mothers in Takalar and Bone, two regencies in South Sulawesi. Takalar is the first regency to implement bylaws regulating the modern and traditional midwives partnership in Indonesia. Tempo English Edition filed a report on the two regencies last month.
May 5, 2010
A HAPPY atmosphere prevailed on the veranda of one of the hotels in Makassar. On the veranda dozens of midwives and dukun were gathered. The Regency of Takalar in South Sulawesi intended to use the event to promote an understanding of the dukun-midwife partnership in childbirth. Most of the midwives present were still relatively young. The traditional midwives on the other hand were a lot older as they were mostly over 50 years of age. In the hot
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