International Journal of Science and Healthcare Research Vol.3; Issue: 4; Oct.-Dec. 2018 Website: www.ijshr.com Original Research Article ISSN: 2455-7587 International Journal of Science and Healthcare Research (www.ijshr.com) 53 Vol.3; Issue: 4; October-December 2018 Factors Affecting Participation of Productive Ages in Family Planning Program for Kampung Bape, Pegunungan Bintang District Seperyanus Kakyarmabin 1 , Arius Togodly 2 , Yermia Msen 3 , Anwar Mallongi 4 1 Magister Program of Public Health, Faculty of Public Health, Cenderawasih University, Jayapura. 2,3 Lecturer of Master Program in Public Health. Faculty of Public Health, Cenderawasih University, Jayapura 4 Environmental Health Department, Faculty of Public Health, Hasanuddin University, Makassar Corresponding Author: Seperyanus Kakyarmabin ABSTRACT The situation and condition of Indonesia in the field of population, its quality is currently very poor. Various attempts have been made to control population growth, especially through controlling birth rates or fertility. Efforts to reduce birth rates are done by using contraceptives voluntarily for couples of childbearing age. This study aims to determine knowledge factors, educational factors, family support factors, socio-environmental factors, cultural factors, information accessibility factors, the number of children, economic factors, age factors and health factors, influencing the participation of couples of childbearing age in the Family program. knowing knowledge factors, educational factors, family support factors, socio-environmental factors, cultural factors, information accessibility factors, factors in the number of children, economic factors, age factors and health factors, influencing the participation of fertile couples in the Family Planning program in Bape Village, Pegunungan Bintang Regency. This research is descriptive- analytical by processing data distributed to respondents based on population in couples of childbearing age. Sampling was done by purposive sampling with a large sample of 70 in couples of childbearing age. Data is processed using the SSS 21 program. The results of bivariate analysis using the Chi- square test showed that variables that had significant influence were knowledge variables (p-value 0.000 <0.05), family support variables (p-value 0.005 <0.05), cultural variables (p- value 0.001 <0.05), and information accessibility variable (p-value 0.006 <0.05). While the variables of education, number of children, economy, age and health showed no influence on the participation of couples of childbearing age in family planning programs. It is expected that family planning officers in the region will be more proactive in providing counseling to the community, especially for couples of childbearing age to understand the benefits of family planning and can change the paradigm of values (beliefs) in the community. Keywords: knowledge, family support, culture, information accessibility, family planning. 1. INTRODUCTION According to the World Health Organization (WHO) Family Planning is an action that helps married couples to avoid unwanted pregnancies, get births that are desirable, set the interval between pregnancies. Control the time at birth in relation to the age of the husband and wife and determine the number of children in the family (Hartanto, 2004). This family planning program has a NKKBS vision and has been transformed into a quality family in 2015. So that through this family planning program quality assessment of family planning services can be conducted by participating and focusing on strategies so that services are more easily obtained and participants are accepted by various couples of childbearing age so that fertile age couples interested in being a KB acceptor (Sarwono, 2005). The family planning program was declared to be quite successful in Indonesia, but in the implementation up to now there are still obstacles that are felt, among others, that there are still many couples of