Public Support of Exclusive Breastfeeding in Women Workers
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200529.148How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- women workers, exclusive breastfeeding, public support
- Abstract
Working women have their own dilemma because besides working women also have to continue performing their duties and responsibilities as mothers, one of which is to keep on providing exclusive breastfeeding. Public Support or work environment support is one of the determining factors for the success of exclusive breastfeeding for working mothers, in addition this is because the Government and many companies in Indonesia have not provided full leave allowance but only for up to 3 months. Many companies do not provide a special time for their employees to breastfeed or express milk at their workplaces, flexibility in working time, and duration of leave affect the success of exclusive breastfeeding. Besides providing space and tools three times better influence in supporting exclusive breastfeeding. The Government has regulated Public Support in Government Regulation No.33 of 2012 paragraph (2) concerning provisions regarding private breastfeeding program support at work carried out in accordance with company regulations between employers and workers/laborers, or through a join work agreement between trade unions/unions labourer with the businessman. In paragraph (3), the management of the workplace is explained and, the organizer of the public facilities must provide special facilities for breastfeeding and/or milking in accordance with the conditions of the company’s capabilities. The purpose of this study is to look at how public support for the success of exclusive breastfeeding for working mothers, especially in Yogyakarta City Government. The results of the study show that public support is highly related to the success of exclusive breastfeeding.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Luluk Rosida AU - Intan Mutiara Putri AU - Dewi Kurniasari PY - 2020 DA - 2020/05/04 TI - Public Support of Exclusive Breastfeeding in Women Workers BT - Proceedings of the 1st Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences (BIS-HESS 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 709 EP - 712 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200529.148 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200529.148 ID - Rosida2020 ER -