Perspectives of Indonesian parents towards school-based sexuality education

Internationally, school-based sexuality education programmes have shown to improve sexual practices and health outcomes for young people. However, perceived parental discord is commonly cited as a barrier implementation. Within Indonesia, there limited empirical evidence regarding parents’ attitudes towards education. A sample of 768 Indonesian parents caregivers completed an online Qualtrics survey determine their level support or disapproval the provision within primary secondary schools. The majority supported (n = 756, 98.4%) suggested certain topics should commence early kindergarten elementary school 615, 80.0%). Religious affiliation was not associated with permissiveness. When presented range topics, most agreed inclusion important. some significant variability in opinion based upon age, gender, educational background parent; thereby providing opportunity further work. This preliminary study challenges notions that parents, particularly those religious affiliations, are barriers delivery Indonesia Further research advocacy will hopefully encourage educators expand current levels provision, align international evidence-based guidelines.