Since the first five years development plan, the coverage as well as the quality of maternal health services have been improved considerably, however the maternal mortality ratio has not shown any sign to decline so far. The Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey (IDHS) has shown high coverage of antenatal care in 1991 as well as in 1994, but more than fifty percent of deliveries are still ass…
In Indonesia, the National Household Survey (SKRT) is still the main source of information on causes of death, which is now integrated with the National Socio Economic Survey (Susenas). The SKRT uses technique of verbal autopsy with open questions then classifies the diseases using ICD 10 there were 1,719 cases obtained with 97.8 percent response rate of deaths reported by Susenas to SKRT. Even…