Identity documents are important for access to many public and social services in Indonesia.
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Poverty, vulnerability and discrimination are barriers many Indonesians face in acquiring identity documents.
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Indonesia’s system of identity document ownership is rife with systemic problems.
Delivered, not signed or sealed.
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As local councils deal with a ‘bureaucratic backlog’, should births be registered by telephone, post, or online?
Burial in Madagascar, 2013.
Dennis van de Water
One of the biggest problems in international development is that health statistics are badly kept in many of the countries with the most to gain. Finally something is being done about it.