Health
Mental Health
Program BUNDA (Bersama Mendukung Ibu Sehat dan Bahagia)
Behind BUNDA is a committed, multidisciplinary team from Yayasan Balita Sehat Indonesia, bringing 25 years of experience in maternal and child health across Indonesia’s most underserved communities.
In climate-affected eastern Indonesia, where mental health services are nearly non-existent, BUNDA transforms the system from within by embedding structured psychosocial care into Posyandu and village midwife services. Through simple, evidence-based tools, empathetic support, and family engagement, we reach mothers others cannot.
Stronger Together
The Stronger Together Mental Health Program demonstrates a scalable, evidence-based model for integrating mental health into Indonesia’s garment sector. Implemented in two factories in Boyolali and Bogor, the program successfully transitioned workplace mental health from a reactive, clinic-based approach to a proactive, peer-led ecosystem.
Health and nutrition education for mothers
Child malnutrition remains at a significant rate, particularly in marginalised communities as a result of a number of issues other than poverty.
A significant factor in under-nourishment, experts agree, is a lack of knowledge on the part of the caregiver about what constitutes good nutrition. Some mothers just don’t know what to feed their children. Another important factor is mothers’ behaviour during feeding practices.
Basic nutritional education for mothers is therefore one of the most important activities at FMCH and, whilst children attend the Early Learning sessions, their mothers attend general health and nutrition lessons. Through games and other interactive teaching methods, mothers learn about the importance of certain types of food, breastfeeding, feeding practices, how to treat various illnesses such as children’s diarrhoea, and amongst other things, the importance of immunizations in preventing common diseases.
In addition, FMCH works with women in factories to understand help find ways to lead healthier lives.
Pregnancy Classes
In Semarang in West Java and in West Timor, ante-natal services are either absent or inaccessible for many people. The Foundation for Mother and Child Health Indonesia, known locally as Yayasan Balita Sehat, has developed an education programme for pregnant women to give them the knowledge and confidence to improve their experience of pregnancy and child-birth and prepare them for their new baby.
Classes include ante-natal training, preparation for childbirth, yoga and cooking classes.
Days for Girls
As education in women’s rights and reproductive health is limited in many areas which lack services, FMCH has launched a programme to raise knowledge and awareness among girls of women’s rights and reproductive health.
