Indonesia Planned Parenthood Association (IPPA) was established on 23 December 1957 as a pioneer on Planned Parenthood in Indonesia.
There were two important words used as the basic philosophy for the organization and program development : family and parenthood. Family is still believed as a main pillar for achieving the wellbeing society, and parenthood is responsible for the development of family members.
Along with the society changes, it is realized that there has been changes on parenthood and family function. It is founded that the responsibility of parents in the family is multi dimensional. Then, in 1990's it was agreed that parent's responsibility in the family at least covers the dimensions of child birth, health, education, wellbeing, and the future of the family.
Based on that philosophy, decided that IPPA's mission is to struggle the acceptance and practice of the responsible family planning in Indonesian family through the program and networking development and society empowerment on population issues especially on reproductive health one.
Reproductive health for youth is the main priority of IPPA, aside from other priority such as the qualified reproductive helath services, gender inequality, and organization strengthen.
This main priority is based on the fact that the need of reproductive health information and services are limited. By the year of 2000 the number of youth (15-24 y.o) will increasing more and more and reach 43.6 million. That is why the Youth's need of reproductive health is getting bigger.
Youth need knowledge and understanding about reproductive health to overcome the problems and motivate responsible behavior so that unwanted pregnancy, unsafe abortion,STDs including AIDS among youth can be decreased.