IT is around 56 kilometers from Manado municipality—the capital city of North Sulawesi province—that the village of Arakan is located. To reach there Tempo had to cross five dented wooden bridges. However, from this unadorned village there is an achievement worth remembering in the history of Indonesian family planning: the growth of male contraceptive acceptors in Arakan village has reached 20 percent or several times more than that of natio