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Semarang Regency, Central Java Province, has implemented Giving Birth Guarantee Program (Jampersal) as mandated by the Act of the Minister of Health Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia No. 515/MENKES/SK/III/2001 on Jampersal Program, which is implemented pursuant to Act of the Minister of Health Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia No. 2562/MENKES/PER/XII/2011 on Technical Guidance for Jampersal. The Giving Birth Guarantee Program has been delivered since June 2011. This research applied a qualitative method. It pursued to answer questions on the implementation of Jampersal Program, including factors supporting the implementation of the policy in Semarang Regency. Informants in this research were selected by a purposive sampling technique, in which the researcher became research instrument. This research found evidences that supported the implementation of the Giving Birth Guarantee Program in Semarang Regency. They were namely consistent implementation of the program, adequate budget of the 2012 Jampersal Program, adequate number of nurses as paramedics, qualified formal implementing agencies, qualified midwives in supporting pregnant mothers, high awareness of the local people on medical check-up during early stages of pregnancy, delivery help, after-birth services by paramedics, and the decrease of traditional “healers”. On the other hand, impending factors that hampered the implementation of the Jampersal Program were also found. They included namely inadequate socialisation, difficulties in claiming the Jampersal cost, inadequate human resource as verificators either at Heath Affairs offices or at public health service centers in Semarang Regency, lacking delegated human resource that provided the ampersal services, and resistance from local people to get involved in the implementation of the policy, especially on trainings on maximising the improvement of the human resources, as well as multiplying number of staff responsible for implementing Jampersal Program.
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