Bridging the Youth Health Gap: A Case Study of Laskar Pencerah

Fairuziana, Olivia Herlinda, S. T. Khumaidah

2018

Abstract

Laskar Pencerah (LP) was initially developed as a youth after school program to address some health inequality issues such as child marriage, unwanted pregnancy, and lack of access to health service in Tosari Bromo sub-district in East Java, Indonesia. After more than four years of implementation, LP has developed and integrated its activity into the formal primary health care program. This paper aims to elaborate on the LP’s process to grow as a youth organization and develop as a movement to drive social change in the community. This is a qualitative study using case study method. The main research question studies the contribution of LP for the youth community mental health and the factors that help LP to sustain. The data was collected through observation and six in-depth interviews. The observation was done during the program implementation in 2012-2015. The interviews were conducted in 2018 with 6 key informants who represent different stakeholders from the internal and external of LP. The result shows that LP is perceived positively and give various impacts to the teenage age group student’s self-development, which is associated with the prevention of risky behavior and mental health problem. The drivers that keep LP to sustain are the member’s internal and external motivation to make a social change in their community. Cultural factors such as guyub and gotong royong are also rooted and unite them as Tenggernese community. The findings contribute in understanding the process to develop and sustain community health intervention for adolescent in rural areas

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Fairuziana., Herlinda O. and Khumaidah S. (2018). Bridging the Youth Health Gap: A Case Study of Laskar Pencerah.In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS, ISBN 978-989-758-435-0, pages 525-534. DOI: 10.5220/0008591605250534

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icp-hesos18,
author={Fairuziana and Olivia Herlinda and S. T. Khumaidah},
title={Bridging the Youth Health Gap: A Case Study of Laskar Pencerah},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS,},
year={2018},
pages={525-534},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008591605250534},
isbn={978-989-758-435-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS,
TI - Bridging the Youth Health Gap: A Case Study of Laskar Pencerah
SN - 978-989-758-435-0
AU - Fairuziana.
AU - Herlinda O.
AU - Khumaidah S.
PY - 2018
SP - 525
EP - 534
DO - 10.5220/0008591605250534