Indonesia

The practice is spread across the country.  In 2021, the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection carried out a national survey across 160 districts. The highest prevalence can be found on the island of Sulawesi (81.2% of all forms of sunat, and 50.9% of WHO FGC / unknown), followed by Kalimantan (73.1% of all forms of sunat and 44.3% of WHO FGC / unknown), Sumatra (69.7% of all forms of sunat and 43.7% of WHO FGC  / unknown). The islands of Jawa / Bali, although home to over half the whole Indonesian population, record a national prevalence of sunat of 38.9% and 24.4% of WHO FGC / unknown).

 The percentage of women who have heard the term FGM/C amounts to 86.9% in Sulawesi, 85.8% in Kalimantan, 79.6% in Sumatra and 63.4% in Java-Bali. In the rest of the country, only half the women have heard the term of FGM/C and 39.1% underwent a form of sunat.

 In 2017 a survey was carried out a survey of the practice across the ten provinces which had recorded the highest prevalence in the 2013 national survey.  Within these provinces prevalence ranged from 83.7% in Gorontalo (which recorded the highest rate at 93.1% in Bone Bolango District) to 60.4% in East Kalimantan.  It is interesting to note that the latter, along with the next two with lowest prevalence, Jambi (69.7%) and West Nusa Tenggara (68.7), were the three provinces among the ten studied which have a legislative framework that supports the medicalization of FGM/C.  In these districts perda (local regulations) exist that includes FGM/C as a part of health services and so generates a levy payable to the district government.