INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BASIC AND APPLIED SCIENCE

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P-ISSN: 2301-4458 E-ISSN: 2301-8038 Vol. 01, No. 01 July 2012

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The Understanding and Behavior of First Level Students on Premarital Sexual Behavior
Siva Hamdani
Bogor Husada Academy of Midwifery Jl. Soleh Iskandar No. 4, Bogor, Indonesia aikoniswa@yahoo.com

Key Words
Understanding, Attitude, Premarital Sexual Behavior

Abstract
This study is a descriptive research in creating a phenomenon or a description of situation objectively as the main objective. The data is taken from the primary data documentation study and subsequent data presented in charts and tables. The respondents are all first-level university student age (16-19 years) at the Bogor Husada Academy of Midwifery which by holding the questionnaires. The results found that the incidence of premarital sexual behavior was 0.87% (one person), and non-incidence of premarital sexual behavior is 99.13% (114 people). Premarital sexual behavior related to student understanding showed that they were familiar (91.30%), moderate (7.83%), and poor (0.87%). Instead, students attitudes toward premarital sexual behavior reflected disagree (98.26%) and agree (1.74%). The results of this research may be used as information material and a comparison for future research related to sexual behavior among teenagers.
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Introduction

Indonesia faces the fact where teenage pregnancy is increasing and becoming a serious problem. The Impacts of premarital sex are the occurrence of sexual diseases and pregnancy outside of marriage. A survey shows that the number of teens (around ages 10-19 years) in Indonesia is around 43 million or 19.61% of the whole population. About one million young men (5%) and 200 thousand young women (1%) openly states that they have intercourse (MOH, 2006). Moreover, a recent study conducted by the University of Indonesia Center for Health Research estimated that the incidence of abortions in Indonesia each year are about 2 million (Utomo et al 2001). Thus, unsafe abortion in Indonesia is currently contributing to 30-50% maternal mortality rate (MMR), make it the highest rate in ASEAN. Bogor city owns approximately 2.30% of adolescents that have engaged in premarital sex, not for commercial practice, generally 80% done with their boyfriends. On the other hand, the city of Bogor contains 28.9% of adolescents aged 21-25 years which are infected with HIV / AIDS (Arini, 2010). X is an institution of health education in the city of Bogor, which not only seeks to provide academic understanding to their students but also to provide moral education to ward off a variety of negative

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behaviors. Until this research has been done, there are two students who had been excluded from the institution concerning to their negative behaviors. Premarital sexual behavior has become a trend among teens; the number of events is increasing rapidly. One of the contributing factors is the lack of understanding about premarital sex. It impacts not only individuals but also to the community and even country. Based on the background above, the author is interested to know the phenomenon of first grade students understanding and attitudes on the premarital sexual behavior in one of Educational Institutions located in Bogor.

Literature Review

Premarital sexual behavior is done without going through the formal process of marriage by law, religion, and belief of each individual (Luthfie, 2002). Meanwhile, Srisardjono (2002) argues that premarital sex is sexual behavior carried out by women and men without marriage. Sharif (2008) concludes that sexual intercourse outside of marriage is showing no sense of responsibility and raises a series of new problems that cause physical disruption of the human psycho. Some researchers have done their studies to find the phenomenon recently, as done by Kirana in 2002. Collecting sample from a leading medical faculty students in Indonesia, She found that the respondents had premarital sex (16%), free sex (14.2%), sex with friends (12.3%) , sex with boyfriend (12, 2%), sex with fianc (13.2%) and even with prostitute or gigolo (8.5%). This study also found that 72.6% of respondents had watched a porn video, 43.4% had kissed, 29.2% had petting behavior, 15.1% had oral sex and 11.3% had done sexual intercourse. In 2004, Kardawati discovered the students of SMAN 6 Jakarta by the number of 106 respondents. Kardawati found that 55.7% of respondents had positive attitudes toward sexual behavior and 55.7% of respondents had negative attitudes toward premarital sex behaviors.

Methodology

The research is a descriptive study by taking a cross sectional method. The research data is primary data obtained from 115 respondents. The data was collected using a questionnaire instrument, according to the conceptual framework of open questions and closed questions. The process of analyzing research data was done by using univariate analysis in order to describe statistical method, to see the frequency distribution for the variable characteristics and to reveal information technology and the role of parents; as well as in the calculation of the percentage of correct answers for the variable of understanding and value scores for the attitude variable. The descriptive analysis variable was implemented by a simple statistical calculation of the percentage. On the other hand, the attitude variable was performed by a Likert scale using five scales such as strongly agree, agree, undecided, disagree, strongly disagree.

Results and Discussion

About 92.3% of the respondents understood concerning to the reproductive health. Afterward, the Respondent attitudes toward premarital sexual behavior were in good level (95.7%). Types of mass media which reflected sources of information about sex were internet, television and magazines. Later, the mass media of the most widely selected as the access to pornography are television, vcd , dvd, and internet. Most of respondents (81, 7%) had boyfriends by which their behavior activities were in the low (65, 2%), moderate (24, 3%) and high (10, 5%) levels.

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The incidence of premarital sexual behavior was 0.87% (one person), and non-incidence of premarital sexual behavior was 99.13% (114 people) where premarital sexual behavior understanding showed that they were familiar (91.30%), fair (7.83%), and poor (0.87%). Instead, students attitudes toward premarital sexual behavior reflected disagree (98.26%) and agree (1.74%). To respond this phenomenon, the educational institutions should increase several positive activities that can distract the student to do some unusual activities, including sex behavior. They also can transfer the understanding through seminars, talk shows, anti-premarital sex campaigns, providing some peer educators or counselors, making clinical education and improve religious activities on campus.

Conclusion

The research concludes that the understanding of sex education should be viewed as one of important matters in todays teenagers phenomenon. Sexual behaviors do not affect anything, but some can lead into serious examples of unwanted pregnancy, abortion or even sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) including the common STDs Chlamydia, Genital warts, Herpes, Gonorrhea, Hepatitis and Syphilis. Schools, parents, religious leaders and government must elaborate their visions and missions, concerning to save the nation and build a better civilization in the future.

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