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Indonesia subscribes to rights-based principles of family planning. However, a chasm between principles and practice has long been noted on a global basis, and progress has not been well-documented. This paper aims to assess the extent to which the Indonesian national family planning program has evolved in a manner that is consistent with rights-based principles.

The primary source of data was five Indonesian Demographic Health Surveys undertaken from 1997 to 2017. The analyses were organized around three major categories of family planning-related human rights. Trend analysis and logistic regression were used in analyzing the data.

Indonesian women have considerable autonomy in family planning decision, reporting that family planning decisions were mainly made by themselves or jointly with their spouse. Although contraceptive method awareness and demand for family planning are high, Indonesia fares poorly with regard to informed choice in contraceptive method selection. Access to family planning services is comparatively high as judged by contraceptive prevalence, family planning demand satisfaction and unmet need for family planning. However, significant geographic and socioeconomic inequity were observed on many indicators, with eastern Indonesian provinces consistently lagging behind.

This paper focuses on married couple, as Indonesia has a restrictive policy to limiting access and information of family planning for other groups, unmarried youth in particular.

This paper makes an important contribution to document how effectively the prohuman rights policy orientation toward family planning has been translated into services.

This chapter critically examines contemporary strategies used by nations to manage migration and protect borders, drawing parallels with historical colonial practices. Countries use a variety of methods to assert control over their territories and safeguard their borders, including physical barriers, stringent immigration policies, legal frameworks, and media campaigns. These strategies often mirror colonial tactics, expecting immigrants to conform to the host country’s culture at the expense of their own identities. The chapter discusses the significance of symbolic capital in the immigrant experience, emphasizing how the lack of recognition and respect can hinder successful integration. It critiques the paradox of migration policies where countries seek to exclude undesirable migrants while attracting those needed for labor, likening this to colonial exploitation where labor was valued over individuals. Various theoretical frameworks, including cultural hybridity and the influence of colonial legacies, are used to highlight the ongoing impact of colonialism on modern migration practices. The chapter argues for a reevaluation of integration policies to promote inclusivity and respect for cultural diversity. It calls for a shift from viewing national culture as static and homogeneous to recognizing it as dynamic and constructed through historical, social, and political forces. The text also critiques the positivist tradition for framing migration discourse primarily in terms of economic utility, marginalizing non-Western perspectives. It emphasizes the need for decolonizing knowledge systems and management practices to foster a more inclusive understanding of national identity and integration.

The winter 1991 issue of Reference Services Review featured an annotated bibliography of literature on Christopher Columbus from 1970 to 1989. That literature covered such topics as Columbus' ancestry, heraldry, and the locations of both his American landfall and burial site. This annotated checklist focuses mainly on Columbus' legacy, on works that offer a dissenting point of view from most previous writings about Columbus (and on works that react to the dissenters), on material written by Native American and other non‐European authors, and on materials published by small and noncommercial presses.

Narrative inquiry and life history are privileged methods for studying people's lives, experiences, and identity construction. In this article, I argue that critical life history inquiry is especially suitable for studies of those, who have actively involved in progressive social and cultural movements and have developed an identity as activist educators.

I propose in this chapter that the dominant practice of critical management studies (CMS) is characterised by white masculinity, where theorising tends to assume a white universal norm while commodifying difference. This approach treats diversity as something CMS has, rather than is. In order to disrupt the prevailing practice, I explore how anti-racist feminisms (a term I use here to refer to the diverse movements of postcolonial feminism and feminisms of colour) may shape CMS towards a more reflexive and meaningful engagement with difference. In reflecting on my own performance of white masculinity as an aspiring critical management scholar, I suggest that an anti-racist feminist approach bears the potential to challenge relations of domination within CMS and reinvigorate our pursuits for emancipation. It is my hope that the anti-racist feminist perspective advanced in this chapter may offer an opportunity for critical management scholars to ‘do’ critique differently through a radical inclusion of previously marginalised perspectives.