Community profile of

Tana Toraja
1.0 INTRODUCTION
This reports will form a community profile of Tana Toraja district. Community profiling can be describe as a
process by which one dissects the environmental characteristics, health status and the health system under which a
community operates. (Dannaway J, Narang B, Trevena L 2014)

Tana Toraja district will fall into geographical community sector, which is a community of people brought together
by geographic boundaries, focusing upon people and activity. (Millington R, 2010)
Tana Toraja is highland area of South Sulawesi, about 1500 above sea level and consist of 19 sub-district. (see
Apendix Administrative map of Tana Toraja)

All statistics in this report are provided by Indonesia census bureau and are taken from 2015, 2019 census or
associated documentation unless otherwise indicated.
2.0 POPULATION
2.1 Population count
Population: 231,519
Household: 53,101
2.2 Demographic analysis
There is a slightly split population of male and female, with 50,4% for women
population.
The analysis data showed the age group of 0-9 years old is the largest population,
with the numbers hit 22% to the total group of age and slightly better than national percentage
(19%) to the same age group. These are due to the possibility of reachable health center in the area
for the population, and the knowledge of the important to have delivery by professional health
care (midwife, nurse, and obstetrician). The delivery taken care by health professional is 92% of
the total delivery records.
The lowest population age group is at the range 60-64 years old.
3.0 HOUSING
3.1 Type
There are 53,101 household, with average 4 members/household. The population density in the
urban area is 897,62 person/km2. While in the rural area is 108 people/km2.
There are many small rented flats on the urban area, occupy by migration family from other places
around. That make the population density is on the higher value.
Mostly houses is own by themselves (83,5%) and the rest is renting house (16,5%).

3.2 Availability
There are only 2 housing cluster near a main city built by developer. All houses were sold out.
There is no housing for sale board sign, able to seen along the road.
While there are many availability for rent places on the area.
The cost to own a house (land + physical building) is very high in the urban area, reach to US $
714/m2. The farer from city the cheaper the cost. Renting a room will cost around US $ 35-150/month.

3.4 Quality
Mostly houses are modern house, built with cement and good ventilation. Houses with its own
toilet and septic tank is 86,44%. However some houses near market is in the bad shape. All houses use
water from department of public health and environment.
4.0 ECONOMY
The employment rate is high, 94% are working population. 6% are unemployment. Even though
there is high working population, the rate of below poverty population is 12%. With unprofessional
worker (education elementary school only) is 22%.
The agriculture worker is the highest working population.

5.0 EDUCATION
There are many school from kindergarten to high school in Tana Toraja i.e. Makale, the biggest
sub-district in Tana Toraja, have 5 government high schools, 3 private high school.
Both public and private school are free tuition from elementary to junior school. High school
tuition is US $15 monthly.
The group of people who have an education degree of high school and/or above is 40%.

6.0 HEALTH CENTER

6.1 FACILITIES
- There is 1 Government Hospital, as the reference hospital, with 180 beds capacity, with 8
specialist departments. 2 private Hospital offered 4 specialist department, with total private hospital
capacity is 210 beds.
- 20 Health center open for 24 hours (1 health center/sub-district), where at least a medical doctor,
4 nurses, 6 midwifes and a lab. Technician standby.
- There are at least 30 integrated health center. (nurse/midwife standby, visiting doctor)
- 44 sub-integrated health care (special for delivery cases and vaccination attend by nurse/midwife).
- 23 education clinic (information center for family plan, contraception, sanitation).

6.2 Services
The health center in the sub-district (open 24 hours) offer 2 medical services; Medical-Minor
Surgical and dentist. The health center have out/in patient department, with capacities from 2- 6
beds.
The integrated medical center service is open am daily. Usually nurses or midwifes are
responsible for the post.
Sub-integrated health care is open once monthly in every specific place, for vaccination and
monitoring new born baby weight.
Some nurses or midwiferies will do home visit to the families in some area twice monthly.
6.3 Insurance
Government obligate all people to have insurance issue by government. There are 3 level of gov.
insurance offered to the people with different monthly fee. The service offer by medical care are same, the
room facilities are different in each level.
Level 1 : US $ 11/month – Class room 1 facilities (2-4 beds inside), can be upgrade to VIP, and need
to pay the different room cost.
Level 2: US $ 7/month – Class room 2 facilities (3-5 beds), can be upgrade to class room 1.
Level 3: US $ 2/month – Class room 3 facilities (4-6 beds), can be upgrade to class room 2.
Level 4: free- only for people who below poverty line. They have a special card and can only occupy
class room 3, and cannot be upgrade.

The insurance can be used for in/out patient but it is not cover all the medical cost, like CT scan, MRI, plastic
surgery for beauty purpose, accident that happen because of hobby (Climbing, Diving, etc.), and some
medicines.

6.4 Participate
There are a large number of people using professional medical care in medical centers, taking the
benefit of insurance.
For example, in Makale city, the delivery done by medical staff (Doctor or midwifery) is 94% out of the
total registered newborn babies in the civil service department. Visiting people in medical health centers
in 2018 is 22,240 patients use Gov. Insurance and 6,290 patients use non-insurance.
7.0 Resource and Facilities
7.1 Leisure facilities
Tana Toraja has natural spots for recreation. It’s famous for traditional customs and natural
resources leisure, second to Bali for tourist place in Indonesia. Visited by local and international
tourist.

7.2 Worship
Churches and mosques for every denomination are in good condition and reachable. Good
space for member to worship inside the church/mosque. Tana Toraja’s people are high tolerance for
religion worshippers.

7.3 Shopping
There are 6 center markets in Tana Toraja. The market is a mixing of traditional and modern markets.
The markets have an open time where the schedule day is rolling in a week i.e. Makale’s market is the
largest market in Tana Toraja. Officially it’s open once a week but most shops are open daily. There are 2
big grocery stores in Makale.
7.4 Transportation
There are many households that do not own car transportation. By 2015, motorcycle are the most
registered transportation. It’s 11,508 motorcycles compared to 2,205 4-wheels transportation modes (Car,
Truck, and Bus). Mainly people are using public transportation, go to leisure places, shopping center, or to
church.
Some places in rural areas, the public transport is limited, with only 1-2 public cars going to city
daily. The cost is 50 cents to round the city by wagon car. The fee from rural areas depend on the
distance.
8.0 Environmental Issue
There is no proper recycling waste machine, so wastes are dumped in the landfill.
Household’s sewers are channeling to the nearby river. Plastic and kitchen wastes can be found easily
in the river.
Most people have livestock animals in their home, like pigs, buffalo and chickens. These animals waste
drain to the river.

9.0 NEED ANALYSIS

A high cost for houses, which is not affordable by most people, need to be address by government with
building subsidy houses.
High percentage of uneducated worker should be taken note too. Improving skill and knowledge by
giving seminary or attend workshop training will help to make a better pay check.
The lack of knowledge from health care giver contribute to the poor nursing care in the hospital. Many
patient diagnosed in the health centers are diseases related to the lifestyle. This can be address by giving
continuous health education and healthy life practice by health practitioner.

10. Conclusion
there are large margin to improve the community health in Tana Toraja. It need all the related stake
holder to make assessment base on the community need. Finding the solution which is acceptable by all the
members and continuous evaluation of the programs.
 REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

Dannaway J, Narang B, Trevena L. 2014 Community Profiling. A Valuable Tool for Health Professionals. Indian journal of
community health. Accessed January 3, 2021, <https://
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Millington R, 2010, accessed January 3, 2021,<https://www.feverbee.com/different-types-of-communities/>

BPS, 2020, accessed on January 3, 2021,<https://tatorkab.bps.go.id/>

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