SurveyMETER is an Independent Research Institute based in Yogyakarta. Our Vision and Mission is to be a knowledge institution to inspire and strengthen the evidence-based policy. Our research focus is on health, education, and disaster issues. One sub-sector of health that we continue to work on is the issue of aging (population aging).

Population aging has become an important social, economic and political issue in developing countries, especially in Asia with the fastest aging population region. We could imagine that the number of elderly in the world was predicted to reach 1 billion by 2022, and it would have been 2 billion by 2050. Indonesia is the fourth highest elderly population in Asia, after China, India, and Japan. The highest one is in the Province of the Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY), and the elderly population in Indonesia would have been double that of children under five by 2030.

In response to this issue, SurveyMETER (together with CAS UI) conducted an Assessment Study of Age-Friendly Cities in 14 cities in Indonesia in 2013 as part of the movement Towards a Dream City for an Elderly-Friendly City in 2030. At the same time, we also conducted a Study on the Elderly-Friendly in Yogyakarta. Then, in 2015-2016 we conducted a Dementia Study (Alzheimer's) in DIY. In addition, from 2013 until now, we have also provided assistance to the elderly in Pajangan District, Bantul Regency.

The study results above could be various sources of references to create an elderly-friendly community. At the end of 2016, we also set them as the movement campaign towards an elderly-friendly community from Yogyakarta. We produced flyers (as shown in the picture) commitment to a joint step towards an elderly-friendly community containing 21 main indicators of the 8 elderly-friendly dimensions to create an elderly-friendly community. All of them are recommendations from the 2013 elderly-friendly city assessment study. In 2017, our target for this campaign is to 5,000 people consisting of 2,250 students (elementary, junior high, senior high, and college), 750 from the private sector, 750 from the government, and 1,250 from the general public.

We could not walk alone for this common purpose. We must work together hand in hand, including the media we conducted with RBTV Yogyakarta on December 18, 2016, yesterday.

Furthermore, through this media, we ask for all of your support. For the government or the private institutions who are willing to reproduce our campaign flyers, we invite you to contact SurveyMETER first to discuss the stages and technicalities.

Greetings to the elderly-friendly community.