Terence H Hull

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• PhD in Demography
• Professor Emeritus at Australian National University

Summary Many recent fertility studies in developing societies put forward the hypothesis of a negative relation between economic class and fertility. Data showing a positive relationship are frequently dismissed a priori as resulting from the reporting errors of illiterate women. This study draws on data from Indonesia's 1971 Census, a 1973 sample...

When looking back into the first century of Australian history following white settlement we often rely on the records of musters, listings and censuses to provide information on individuals and communities. The first census of New South Wales in 1828 was little more than a directory of names of settlers and settlements, but both professional histo...

This paper explores some consequences of rapid changes in contraceptive use, fertility and mortality in Indonesia. An examination of demographic trends over four decades reveals a behavioural disjuncture, with implications for diagnoses of social problems arising from changing family structures, and for policy prescriptions to overcome these proble...

Underlying the hopes and plans for democratic decentralisation in Indonesia are a series of assumptions about the availability, adequacy and use of statistical data, both locally and nationally. While the government does not question the need for data to define welfare needs, it has yet to clarify the mechanisms by which information can be generate...

Induced abortion is one of the most difficult sociomedical problems facing the Indonesian government. While well-known in traditional society, the practice was discouraged by all Indonesian religious groups, and forbidden by the Dutch colonial authorities. Although abortion was technically illegal under the criminal code, a judicial interpretation...

Despite many health program efforts, the maternal mortality in Indonesia has slowly declined and remains high. A comprehensive understanding of social determinants of maternal mortality is needed to guide improved strategies to accelerate reductions in maternal mortality. This study aimed to assess the health-program and social factors that determi...

An emerging scholarship indicates that the negative educational gradient in fertility preference has reversed in some low-fertility societies in the West. This paper explores the association between education and fertility preference in Greater Jakarta. We use longitudinal data from 962 young adults surveyed in 2010 and 2014. We look at two complem...

Background: Care for women during pregnancy, labour, birth and the postpartum period is essential to reducing maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity, however the ideal place and organisation of care provision has not been established. The World Health Organization recommends a two-tier maternity care system involving first-level care in com...

Indonesia is home to the world’s largest Muslim population. In contrast to much of the Middle East, veiling in Indonesia is neither a deeply rooted cultural practice, nor it is universally practised among Muslim women. Just 30 years ago it was rare to see an Indonesian woman wearing a hijab or veil. Today, veiling has become a relatively common pra...

The history of sex work in Indonesia is filled with contradictions and conflicts. Women from poor families were recruited by nobles to take the position of concubines to serve the twin roles of domestic and sexual servants. Foreign traders, soldiers and officials also exploited the opportunity to recruit poor women to maintain temporary households,...

The 1971 Indonesian Population Census revealed that the total fertility rate was high and economic analysis showed that large family sizes constituted a heavy burden on both individual households and the national economy. The technocratic team charged with improving the economy under a New Order Government had convinced military leaders in 1968 to...

This article addresses the question of whether a shift to a self-chosen marriage partner means that traditional cultural norms stressing family influence on spouse selection have been weakened by inroads of modern norms of greater individual autonomy in the marriage process. Using a representative sample of 1552 married young adults (aged 20–34) in...

A WHO-supported provincial-level population-based survey was conducted in 2007 to understand the determinants and implications for health of vaginal practices. A total of 919 women aged 18-60 were selected randomly for enrolment. This is the first population-based study of females in Tete Province, Mozambique. At some time over their lives, 98.8% o...

Book Review of Kim Streatfield's 1986 monograph titled Fertility Decline in a traditional society: The case of Bali. Canberra: Department of Demography, ANU

This study contributes to expanding the knowledge of the health of older persons living in Indonesia, a country with limited welfare benefits. The research employs a variable, ‘self-rated health’ (SRH), to investigate socio-cultural factors linked to the health of older Indonesians. The data presented in this study are based on fieldwork collected...

Background: The high incidence of young people dropping out of school prior to completing secondary schooling remains a nationwide problem in Indonesia. While it is commonly assumed that early school-leavers will become child workers, in fact little is known about their transition to adulthood. Objective: Using retrospective data from a sample of...

Using data from a representative survey (N=3,006) and in-depth interviews (N=80), this paper examines the socio-demographic nature of the digital divide among young adults in Greater Jakarta. Results from the 2010 Greater Jakarta Transition to Adulthood Survey indicate that 85 per cent of respondents owned a mobile phone. Access to Internet and its...

In Indonesian primary schools, sex education is implicitly integrated into various related subjects, such as science, biology, social studies and religion. The technical facts of ovulation and sperm are mentioned in biology, although little or no connection is made between this process and sexual intercourse. By the end of primary school, therefore...

This article examines the impact of internal migration, and its timing, on young women’s transition to adulthood. Using the 2010 Greater Jakarta Transition to Adulthood Survey, we identify five key groups of women living in Greater Jakarta: those who were born there, those who migrated before the age of 10, those who migrated between ages 10 to 17,...

How floods caused the loss of 7 villages, and how residents adapted.

Adaptation to climate change

This paper examines the relative education and employment outcomes among young migrants and non-migrants in Greater Jakarta in 2009/2011. Using data from the 2010 Greater Jakarta Transition to Adulthood Survey that includes 3006 respondents aged 20 to 34 years old, the paper highlights the importance of the age at migration in influencing the patte...

Climate change and migration in Bangladesh

Vaginal practices have been linked with an increase in risk for HIV transmission, as well as other harms. In 2007, a household survey of 919 women was conducted in Tete province, Mozambique, as part of the WHO Multi-country Study on Gender, Sexuality and Vaginal Practices. Women between 18 and 60 years were interviewed to determine prevalence and m...

Indonesia is both the home of the largest population of Muslims in any nation, and the most complex mosaic of Islamic sects, organizations and belief systems of any majority Muslim population. The impact of this variety on demographic structures and trends was long regarded as inconsequential because there were few differentials of vital statistics...

There is a need for nationally representative information on the affordability of health care by disability status to assist in the design of equitable health systems in developing countries. Using the Viet Nam National Health Survey (2001-2002), this paper analyses health care utilization, cost burden and coping strategies for people with disabili...

Women worldwide use various vaginal practices to clean or modify their vulva and vagina. Additional population-level information is needed on prevalence and motivations for these practices, characteristics of users, and their adverse effects. This was a household survey using multistage cluster sampling in Tete, Mozambique; KwaZulu-Natal, South Afr...

This note provides a critical perspective on the preliminary results of the 2010 population census, which were announced by President Yudhoyono on 16 August 2010. It explores the concepts of population used and the adjustments made to increase the accuracy of census estimates. The assumptions underlying various official population projections in th...

FuTsung-hsi and HughesRhidian (eds), Ageing in East Asia: Challenges and Policies for the Twenty-first Century, Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 2009, 208 pp., hbk $160, ISBN 13: 978 0 415 45465 0. - Volume 30 Issue 7 - TERENCE H. HULL

Between 2005 and 2006, we investigated vaginal practices in Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Tete, Mozambique; KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; and Bangkok and Chonburi, Thailand. We sought to understand women's practices, their motivations for use and the role vaginal practices play in women's health, sexuality and sense of wellbeing. The study was carried out...

Over the last half-century Indonesia has been concerned about excessive population growth. To reduce the levels of fertility the government in 1968 established a national family planning program. In the following three decades fertility levels fell from over five to under three children per woman. In the past decade questions have arisen about the...

Pleasure may be the key to the successful working of the reproductive systems of humans. However, for all the enjoyment sexual relationships can provide, there are countervailing forces of guilt and disappointment at work on the individual psyche. Religious and social norms enforce limits on sexual expressiveness. These controls are defended as mea...

Good public-health decisionmaking is dependent on reliable and timely statistics on births and deaths (including the medical causes of death). All high-income countries, without exception, have national civil registration systems that record these events and generate regular, frequent, and timely vital statistics. By contrast, these statistics are...

46. Terence H. Hull and Valerie J. Hull. 2005. Section 1: From family planning to reproductive health care: a brief history. In Terence H. Hull (ed.) People, Population and Policy in Indonesia. Jakarta and Singapore: Equinox Publishing (Asia) and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Pp. 1-70.

Few studies have examined the impact of unintended pregnancy on women in developing countries. This paper examines the impact of unintended pregnancy on Indonesian women's psychological well-being. It is hypothesized that experiencing unintended pregnancy is associated with lower psychological well-being and that use of family planning and small fa...

Since the ICPD in 1994, the Government of Indonesia has struggled with the challenge of providing sexual and reproductive health education to adolescents. Following an attempt at a family-centred approach, a pilot project was carried out in Central and East Java to train peer educators, coordinated by the National Family Planning Coordinating Board...

The Asia Pacific region is demographically extremely diverse, with respect to both the sizes of national populations and the processes that determine population growth. Nevertheless, it is clear that in the 1990s development planning needs primarily to confront the implications not of continued high fertility, but of often rapid fertility decline t...

This paper reviews some uniquely male sexual health concerns in Southeast Asia, with particular attention to Indonesia. These include various forms of male circumcision, different types of 'penis enhancement' carried out across the region and the use of dry sex by women. These practices appear to be motivated by specific notions of sexual pleasure,...

Summary: Underlying the hopes and plans of democratic decentralisation in Indonesia are a series of assumptions about the availability, adequacy and application of statistical data, both locally and nationally. The need for data to define welfare needs is unquestioned, but the mechanisms by which information should be generated and transmitted to...

The study of Asian historical demography has lagged behind that of its European and American counterparts for some time. This volume serves to narrow the gap by drawing together material from scholars specializing in demography across the spectrum of Asian countries. The collection divides into four parts and contains nineteen chapters covering iss...

This note discusses the preliminary results of the 2000 Population Census, and their implications for population trends. It outlines problems encountered in collecting the census data, some of which arise from census policies and practices, and others from changed circumstances following the crisis and democratisation. It considers issues that will...

This paper reviews some uniquely male sexual health concerns in Southeast Asia, with particular attention to Indonesia. These include various forms of male circumcision, different types of ‘penis enhancement’ carried out across the region and the use of dry sex by women. These practices appear to be motivated byspecific notions of sexual pleasure,...

When an unexpected financial crisis overtook Southeast Asia in 1997 planners and policymakers feared that the economic difficulties would unwind two decades of remarkable economic and social development. Newspaper headlines spoke of massive increases in poverty, unemployment and malnutrition, and it was speculated that family planning programs woul...

David Glover and Timothy Jessup (eds) (1999), Indonesia's Fires and Haze: The Cost of Catastrophe, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, and International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, pp. xviii + 149. Cloth: S$59.90; US$36.00; Paper: S$28.90; US$17.00. Jeffrey A. Winters (1996), Power in Motion: Capital Mobility and the Indonesia...

Summary of Findings This study was undertaken to examine serious concerns about the recruitment, training, placement, management and career prospects of young term-contract nurse-midwives in villages of East and West Nusatenggara. It is intended to provide recommendations to enhance the strategies and activities contained in the Project Design Doc...

From the perspective of human society, one of the most significant occurrences of the twentieth century has been the demographic transition --- the movement from tragic and wastefully high death and birth rates to low rates in many countries. Many other countries, however, are still at only the early or intermediate stages of this process. In these...

A year after the collapse of the Thai currency signalled the start of the financial crisis of Southeast Asia, newspapers throughout the region carry a steady stream of speculative articles on the likely impact of the crisis on the social, cultural and economic welfare of millions of victims. Among the fears is the possibility that two decades of pr...

"This article updates the literature survey on demographic trends and policies published in the May 1987 issue of this journal. It reports substantial adjustments in earlier population projections, suggesting slower decline in population growth rates for China and several other Asian countries. It gives an account of recent trends and policies in t...

OBJECTIVE: This study investigates maternal mortality in West Java on two levels. First, a review is made of the literature on maternal mortality internationally and with specific focus on West Java. Second, using an innovative method of qualitative data collection (the Rashomon Technique), the importance of different people in dealing with cases o...

Indonesia is the world's largest provider of contraceptive implant services. The implant currently in use consists of six sub-dermally implanted plastic rods which release a form of progesterone into the bloodstream. The action lasts for five years, after which the amount of hormone released falls below the threshold needed to prevent pregnancy. At...

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Late Twentieth Century health systems in Indonesia and Vietnam.

The promotion of social sciences capabilities in public health research in universities frequently encounters unexpected barriers. This paper argues that, in Indonesia, historic factors and institutional structures of public health research have created constraints to success in public health research and international technical assistance. Donors...

This paper examines some recent charges of coercion related to vasectomy, and analyses the sources of the reports and the nature and causes of the actions which were found to have occurred. It is concluded that many prominent participants in the National Family Planning Program are committed to the goals of voluntarism and quality of care, but lack...

Sumitro Djojohadikusumo, Perkembangan Pemikiran Ekonomi, Buku I: Dasar Teori Dalam Ekonomi Umum [The Development of Economic Thought, Book I: The Theoretical Basis In General Economics], Jakarta: Yayasan Obor Indonesia, 1991, pp. xxviii + 429 Selo Soemardjan, Indonesia: A Socio-Economic Profile , New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1988, pp. xi + 162 A...

In recent years the sex ratios of births derived from major national surveys of China have been rising, reaching 111 males per 100 females in 1986-87. Compared with the normal level of approximately 106, this implies that annually over half a million female infants are missing, or just over 2% of all births. There are three possible explanations fo...