(Re)visiting the recommendations of Joint Committee on Reducing Maternal and Neonatal Mortality performance in rural areas in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) and Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) are the success indicators of health sector development. Based on Indonesia's Health Profile in 2019, AKI during the 1991-2015 period has decreased from 390 to 305 per 100,000 live births (Kemenkes RI, 2019). Despite the downward trend in MMR, it has not yet reached the Millennium Development Goals target in 2015 of 102 per 100,000 live births (Standar Profesi Bidan, 2020b). The decline of MMR and IMR is carried out with various efforts including improving access and quality of services through increasing the capacity of health workers, health insurance, and improving the outreach of services mainly for the remote. Recent statistics show that the population of large midwives continues to grow since 1989 when the Indonesian government launched a Midwifery Education Rapid Training Program to improve access to basic midwifery services in the villages.