| Summary: | One target of MDG 2015 is to reduce by half the pulation without access to water and basic sanitation. The Health<br />Ministry of Indonesia has an effort to increase basic sanitation access through National Strategy of Community<br />Based Total Sanitation (STBM) started from 2008. According to data from the local primary health care (Puskesmas)<br />Tegalalang II, the sanitation coverage in some area of Taro Village are low. For that reason, in cooperation with<br />Health Agency of Gianyar, Puskesmas Tegalalang II, the activity of KKN in Taro Village was integrated with STBM<br />program focusing on hygiene behavior change in terms of stop open defecation without any subsidy provided.<br />The preparation was started with training of STBM facilitator participated by KKN students. It was then followed<br />by triggering of stop open defecation as well as promoting hand washing with soap in Banjar Tebuana, Taro,<br />Gianyar. The trigering and promoting activities were conducted through participatory rural appraisal (PRA) method<br />that utilising Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Transformation (PHAST). In order to have baseline data in<br />sanitation, then verification of sanitation facilities already built in the village was carried out. From the trigering<br />process only 3 families that commited to build toilet. The community always consider that poverty as the main<br />reason why they could not afford for a toilet. From the verification result, only 21,21% families that have toilet, and<br />only 38% of those toilet that categorised as hygiene toilet. Moreover, only 55,55% of families that have facilities<br />for washing hand with soap.Based on the trigering and verification result, it is recommended that facilitating this<br />village to rapidly reduce the number of families without access to basic sanitation is very important to continue.<br />The role of sanitarian at Puskesmas cooperated with village government to facilitate their community in pursing<br />behavior change is also very crucial.
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