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Meet the researchers, clinicians, policymakers, advocates and students working within the ARPAN CRE.
Alya is an early-career researcher passionate about equal access to women's sexual and reproductive health rights. She holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Melbourne. She is involved in various global women's health research projects aimed at improving women's access to respectful, equitable, and high-quality maternity care.
Find out more about Alya's research with ARPAN:
Adolescent pregnancy in Indonesia: Understanding maternity care use and quality
Child marriage and adolescent pregnancy remain, unfortunately, common in Indonesia. Like other pregnant women, pregnant adolescents have the right to high-quality and respectful maternity care. However, social stigma towards child marriage and adolescent pregnancy exists in Indonesia, which can lead to suboptimal maternity care, poor pregnancy outcomes, and violations of human rights.
My PhD research explores Indonesian adolescents' use of maternity care and how adolescents are treated during pregnancy, childbirth and post-birth to ensure adolescents receive high-quality and respectful care. This research adopts participatory arts-based methods, including photo-elicitation group discussions, photo-elicitation in-depth interviews and body mapping.
Meet the researchers, clinicians, policymakers, advocates and students working within the ARPAN CRE.
