Joint Ministerial Decision on School Health Units [UKS] - 2004
[Ministry of National Education, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Religious Affaires, Ministry of Internal Affairs]

Article 2
The aim of School Health Unit [UKS] is to improve education quality and learning achievement of learners through improving healthy behaviour and clean leaving and learners’ as well as learning community’s health and creating healthy environment, in order to make harmonious and optimum growth and development possible in the efforts to shape Indonesian human wholly.

Article 3
Direct target of UKS is learners of Out of School Education Unit, Teachers, Tutors, other Education Managers, Health Managers and Community.

Article 4
(1) Establishment and Development of School Health Unit in School/Out of School Education Unit is conducted through three main programmes, which includes:

1. Health Education;
2. Health Service; and
3. Establishment of Health School Environment,

(2) To support the Implementation of Three Main Programs of UKS in School/Out of School Education Unit requires community program, which includes:

1. Work force;
2. Financial;
3. Means and Infrastructure;
4. Research and Development

(3) Establishment and Development of School Health Unit in School/Out of School Education Unit is conducted by UKS working team, which includes:

1. Central UKS Team;
2. Provincial UKS Team;
3. Municipal/district UKS Team;
4. Sub-district UKS Team;
5. School UKS Team.

Article 9
(1) The Tasks of UKS Working Team:

1. Conduct The Three Main Programmes which Includes Health Education; Health Service; and Establishment of Health School Environment, according to the stipulation and guideline determined by UKS Supervisor;
2. Establish cooperation with parents, other institutions and community in implementing UKS activities;
3. Organise program, conduct assessment/evaluation and submit report to the Sub-district UKS Supervisor;
4. Conduct Administrative Work of School UKS Team;

(2) Members of UKS Working Team consist of Village/Regions Government, Headmasters, Teachers, Tutors, and Intra-School Student’s Organisation, Local Community Health Centre, Parents and other relevant parties.
(3) Memberships of UKS Working Team are appointed by the Headmaster.

Article 10
The cost of establishment and development of UKS includes State Budget for Income and Expenses [APBN] for each department, Provincial, District, and School Budget for Income and Expenses and other legal and unbinding sources.

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Recognizing the fundamental connection between health and education, and the urgent need to stem the tide of HIV/AIDS, school health experts at UNESCO, UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank, Education International, Education Development Center and the Partnership for Child Development have come together to develop a framework for comprehensive school health programming named FRESH (Focusing Resources on Effective School Health). FRESH is one of the EFA nine inter-agency flagship initiatives launched at the World Education Forum in Dakar. Since the launch in 2000, it has been endorsed by a variety of other agencies and initiatives.

The FRESH initiative is linked to all six goals of EFA, by identifying and addressing the diverse health related problems that interfere with enrolment, attendance and learning. To achieve these six goals, the following four components are defined as the framework, which should be made available together, in all schools:

• Health related school policies;
• Provision of safe water and sanitation facilities;
• Skills-based health education;
• School based health and nutrition services.

In order to use the FRESH framework effectively and to develop stronger commitment for school policies, there is a need for close collaboration between the Ministries of Education and Health, as well as the wide public partnership. In this regard “UNESCO Regional Workshop on Education Sector’s Response to HIV/AIDS and adoption of FRESH initiative: The role of

Comprehensive School Health to support EFA” was organized in Jakarta on the 22-23 February 2006.

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“We need to focus on the school environment as an arena for change and inclusion, with the teachers and principals playing a lead role in HIV/AIDS prevention. Including the excluded and keeping the young generation sound and healthy lies at the core of FRESH. Therefore we need to seize the opportunity of this initiative and take a FRESH approach to school health” - Mr. Simon Baker from UNESCO Bangkok remarked during the closing ceremony.

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[Artikel by UNESCO Jakarta, EENET Asia Newsletter 06/2005]