The need for contraceptives to prevent unwanted or unintended pregnancies, however, remains, especially among women with economic constraints. Initiated in the 1960s, the Indonesian Family Planning Program has been hailed as a demographic success contributing to the expansion of modem contraceptive use and halving the total fertility rate. Today, Indonesia is close to replacement level while the program has been scaled back, but the maintenance of the small family norm remains a priority in view of the still significant increase in population discussed in the previous section.