What is it about?
Infertility is a significant reproductive health problem affecting at least 15% of heterosexual couples. This article explores the preferences and decision-making processes of 15 married infertile Indonesian couples, of high socioeconomic status, regarding intra-regional reproductive travel in Southeast Asia. One intractable push factor motivating couples to leave Indonesia is the strict regulation of ART, which designates gamete donation and surrogacy as illegal. The paramount concern of our informants was to maximise their chances of reproductive success, and perceptions of higher success rates for conception via ART elsewhere in Asia informed their travel choices. Emotional and psychological concerns were also crucial in determining travel destinations and included a strong desire for privacy; the desire for emotional support whilst attempting conception via ART; the desire for emotional intimacy with one's partner; and the wish for religious compatibility with fertility providers and treatment protocols
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Why is it important?
Strict regulation of ART, chances of reproductive success, and perceptions of higher success rates for conception via ART elsewhere in Asia, Emotional and psychological concerns and privacy are crucial in determining travel destinations.
Perspectives
Indonesia should be able to convince the infertile couple that the local Indonesian ART clinics are able to fulfill the desire of the couple and their need.
Dr Mulyoto Pangestu
Monash University
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This page is a summary of: Regional reproductive quests: Cross-border reproductive travel among infertile Indonesian couples, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, August 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/apv.12160.
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