Indonesia’s Missing Millions: 2014 Baseline Study on Legal Identity Cate Sumner BIRTH ADOPTION Health Social Affairs Home Affairs Justice Education MARRIAGE DIVORCE LEGITIMATION/R ECOGNITION DEATH Religious Affairs for muslim for 50% who are not registered for non muslim for specific cases for non muslim Certificate of marital status is required under Indonesia laws and regulations if a child is to have both parents name on their birth certificate 6 Legal Identity/CRVS Events Institution by Alex Fuller from The Noun Project, Star by Edward Boatman from The Noun Project Baseline Barriers Identified 24-50M Indonesian children are without BC •Cost •Distance •Complexity of Requirements for legal identity documents • Including registered marriage if father and mother’s name to be on the birth certificate. 6 Changes that would make a difference • Remove fees and fines • Take services from the district to village level and provide adequate budget for this • Remove discriminatory practices • Streamline requirements • Better collaboration MoH and MoHA • Fund paralegal services for legal identity EOPO REALISE FACILITATE in a nutshell, we want women, children and people with disability to be able to access health, education, social and legal protection services through increased ownership of legal identity documents COMMUNICATE ADVOCATE EOPO ILLUMINATE EOPO this is our story…… EOPO NATIONAL DATA ANALYSIS STRONG BASELINE ILLUMINATE EXIT SURVEYS & THEMATIC RESEARCH ADMIN DATA MONITORING COURT & GOVERNMENT PEKKA | 18 PROVINCES MA MOHA MORA BAPPEN AS MOH PROV DISTRICT GOV ADVOCATE 70 CSOs & DPOs | 5 PROVINCES UNIVERSITY LEGAL CLINICS DEMAND SIDE SUPPLY SIDE COMMUNICATE NATIONAL, REGIONAL, INTERNATIONAL POLICY DIALOGUES & DIRECTIONS REGULATORY FRAMEWORK PERMA 1/2014, SEMA 3/2014, PP 48/2014 (esp. Surat Dirjen Bimas Islam), UU Adminduk 24/2013 MDG/SDG International Agenda Asia Pacific Regional Framework - Get Everyone in the Picture National Road Map on Legal Identity FACILITATE Inter- Agency Legal Umbrella for Co-operation for Yandu INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK Advocate Removal Fines Advocate ABPN and ABPD budget planning BUDGET FRAMEWORK Bagan Asahan Village • What we learnt from the Baseline research: • Principal of school said he had tried to interest agencies in providing birth certificates and failed. • 88% of children at the school did not have birth certificates • Both parents and school wanted children to have legal identity documents • Cost - distance - lack of understanding on how to obtain a BC were the key barriers What we did: Integrated and Mobile service for Birth Certificates in Bagan Asahan Village • 3 Service Agencies and CSO/DPOs Trained by AIPJ with PUSKAPA • SOP on Yandu Service Delivery developed in collaboration w AIPJ and PUSKAPA • Budget for 3 agencies to travel to village of Bagan Asahan - PA have Capil and KUA supported through AIPJ • Budget for PEKKA paralegals to collect data and facilitate the Integrated and Mobile Service supported through AIPJ. • Big Picture: Over the last 3 years: PEKKA will have supported 100,000 individuals, the majority being women who are poor and vulnerable children (supported by AIPJ). • Client Satisfaction Exit Surveys Undertaken by PEKKA and PUSKAPA What changed: for women who are poor and vulnerable children in Bagan Asahan Village? • 3 Service Agencies delivered services at village level - never happened before. • PEKKA worked with school Principal and staff in Bagan Asahan and will work with SLB in other areas where they work • Opportunity for local govt budget advocacy for Integrated and Mobile Services • More parents understand how PEKKA and the school can facilitate these services in future? • Client Satisfaction Exit Surveys showed 99% of clients interviewed were very satisfied or satisfied with the service received.