International Journal of Public Health Science (IJPHS) Vol.5, No.3, September 2016, pp. 313~319 ISSN: 2252-8806  313 Journal homepage: http://iaesjournal.com/online/index.php/IJPHS Unmet Need and its Reasons for Nonuse Contraceptive in East Java Province Diyah Herowati 1 , Dwi Listyawardani 1 , Titut Yuli Prihyugiarto 2 1 East Java Provincial BKKBN, Indonesia 2 Research Center of Family Planning and Family Welfare BKKBN, Indonesia Article Info ABSTRACT Article history: Received Jun 12, 2016 Revised Aug 18, 2016 Accepted Aug 26, 2016 The primary aim of family planning program is to enable women to fulfill their own needs and desires toward childbearing whether they want to space or limit their birth. However, issues of unmet need in Indonesia, particularly in East Java Province become the urgent problem to be address recently. Based on the data set of the 2014 Mini Survey of Eligible couple in Indonesia, this study attempted to identify the demographic characteristic of women aged 15 – 49 with unmet need, to describe their experienced used contraceptive and to find out reasons for nonuse of contraceptive. This study found that women with unmet need are more likely to be higher among older women, have lower and higher level of education, living in urban areas, and have more number of living children. Most of respondents stated that they had experienced to use contraception before with injectable, IUDs and pill. Other results show a significant number of women mentioned method-related reasons (fear of side effects, health concerns, and inconvenient to use) as most often cited reasons for nonuse. Some important policy implications offered from this study in order to eradicate barriers to the use of contraceptive methods are to improve follow-up, strengthen counselling approaches to address fear of side effects, promote information, education and communication (IEC) on reproductive health and provide availability of the most suitable method according to the need, such as to avoid health problems of women. Keyword: Discontinuation Reasons for nonuse Contraceptive Unmet need Copyright © 2016 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science. All rights reserved. Corresponding Author: Diyah Herowati, BKKBN, East Java Province, Indonesia, Jalan Kalibokor Timur No. 1 Surabaya. Email: didihero@yahoo.com 1. INTRODUCTION Bradley [1] defined unmet need as the proportion of women who are not currently using a contraceptive method, but they want to delay a pregnancy and to stop childbearing. Refer to that definition, this study defined women in unmet need as the married women aged 15-49 who are not currently using a method of contraception but want to have child later (unmet need for spacing) and do not want any children (unmet need for limiting). Unmet need become emerged issues replacing fertility reduction in the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). It has become a key indicator to evaluate the progress of family planning programs. Furthermore in 2007, it was strengthened as a indicator to measure the progress toward Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5b, which is the achievement of universal access to reproductive health [2]. London Summit on Family Planning in 2012 declared that the primary goal of FP2020 was reducing unmet need [3].