Institutional Review Board (IRB) SurveyMETER Tahun 2015 baru terlaksana pada awal 2016. IRB 2015 dilaksanakan pada Sabtu (16/01/2016) kemarin, di Ruang Meeting Lt.2 Kantor SurveyMETER. IRB 2015 ini dilakukan untuk mereview tiga penelitian yang dilakukan pada 2015.

Indonesian Family Life Survey ke-5 2014-2015 (IFLS5) telah menyelesaikan pengumpulan data lapangan pada September lalu. Sebagai bentuk penghargaan atas dedikasi dan kerja keras asisten peneliti lapangan, IFLS5 memberikan penghargaan kepada 5 tim terbaik dari tim Rumah Tangga (HH) dan tim Komunitas dan Fasilitas (CF). Penghargaan berupa sejumlah uang dan sertifikat dari IFLF5 Principal Investigator, Prof John Strauss (University of Southern California), yang diberikan kepada anggota tim terbaik.

SurveyMETER selesai melakukan uji coba (Pilot Test) Survei Sosial Ekonomi Rumah Tangga Perdesaan (SUSERDES) 2015. Pilot Test ini dilaksanakan selama lima hari, 3 hingga 7 November 2015. Lokasi pilot test di dua desa di Kabupaten Lombok Barat, Provinsi Nusa Tenggara Barat.

Survey METER turut memperingati Bulan Alzheimer Dunia 2015 yang puncaknya diperingati setiap tanggal 21 September. Peringatan Hari Alzheimer tak lepas dari bidang penelitian SurveyMETER yang konsern mengenai persoalan kesehatan terutama kesehatan kaum lanjut usia. Persoalan Alzheimer sering kali dikaitkan dengan masalah kelanjutusiaan.

SurveyMETER terlibat pada acara Deklarasi Jakarta Kota Ramah Demensia/Ramah Lansia 2015 di Balai Agung Jakarta pada Jum’at (11/09/2015) lalu. Acara deklarasi ini digagas oleh Yayasan Alzheimer Indonesia dengan dukungan penuh dari Pemerintah Provinsi DKI Jakarta. Kegiatan ini juga didukung oleh lintas sektor kemitraan baik dari pemerintah maupun sector swasta. Meliputi, di antaranya, Pemprov dan SKPD terkait, Kemenkes RI, Alzheimer's Disease International, WHO, Gajah Tunggal, Medical, Akademisi, Pemerhati kelanjutusiaan, Peneliti, NGO kelanjutusiaan, hingga Bank CIMB Niaga.

The 2015 National Elderly Day (HLUN) that is due every 29 May was celebrated by SurveyMETER with 75 elderly people from Watugedug hamlet, Guwosari village, Pajangan sub-district, Bantul district. It took place on May 29, 2015, from 13.30 to 17.00 p.m. in the courtyard of the house of the Hamlet head of the Watugedug, Mr. Mugiyanto.

A series of activities were held with joy in the celebration, commencing with elderly gymnastics, games (creating banana-leaves wrappers for females and young-coconut-leaves woven diamonds for males), welcoming the local government apparatus, cutting the rice cone to mark the commemoration, handover elderly companion cadres’ vests, sharing stories about old-school games, and completed with the SurveyMETER's door prizes distribution.

Of the 75 attendees’ elderly in Watugedug Hamlet, not only those who were still healthy and full of ability but several came with the help of a cane. Known that some of them were previously unable to participate in activities since the roads were up and down, and later they were picked up using a car provided by SurveyMETER. It was also attended by the Guwosari village head, village apparatus, hamlet head, neighborhood association (RT) head throughout Watugedug hamlet, community leaders, and a group of PKK (a community-based woman's social organization).

The 2015 HLUN commemorative activity agenda was very distinctive from the previous year's one. We used to conduct activities in the form of campaigns (challenges) to provide care for the elderly by handing out stickers and flowers at markets, at malls, at the main intersection streets of the Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY), and at other venues or public spaces.

In conjunction with being supported by SurveyMETER, the event was also fully nourished by the Watugedug hamlet community since the spouse women group in each RT independently sponsored a variety of traditional snacks such as dawet ice, porridge, traditional snacks both steamed and fried from cassava, bananas, bacem tempeh (soybeans), etc. to enjoy together.

At the commencement of the event, the Guwosari village head H. Muhamad Suharto expressed his gratitude to SurveyMETER for conducting the programs and activities so far. He also expected the elderly in his village to afford to always live a healthy and happy life, along with maintaining physical health as well as enhancing spiritual well-being.

It was such a shape of love and affection from SurveyMETER to the elderly group in the assisted areas. Among the elderly assistance programs for this hamlet conducted by SurveyMETER from April 2015 to April 2016 were: providing 3 units of blood pressure measurement devices (tensimeters), presenting experts  (H. Sudiman, M. Ag from the Social Organization Melati Sleman), preparing mentoring materials for elderly companion cadres, arranging anti-senile gymnastics training for elderly companion cadres, serving homecare (home visits for bedridden elderly), equipping 7 elderly companion vests (as the identity when carrying out mentoring activities), granting souvenirs during homecare visits, and providing transport allowance as well as various allocations and actions encouraging cadres in carrying out assistance to the elderly. (TPA/JF)

“Ya Allah, Tuhan kami, bimbinglah kami menjadi hamba yang pandai bersyukur dan berbagi. Ya Allah, Tuhan kami, bimbinglah lembaga kami menjadi lembaga yang makin dipercaya dan tetap membumi.”

Persiapan kegiatan lapangan Survei Kesehatan Anak dan Ibu (SKAI) 2015 memasuki tahap akhir pilot survei. Pada 18 - 23 Januari 2015 lalu dilakukan kegiatan pilot survei tahap kedua di Kabupaten Gowa, Sulawesi Selatan.  Pada akhir 2014 lalu pilot pertama dilakukan di daerah yang sama khusus untuk menguji coba instrumen studi fasilitas puskesmas.

Pilot tahap  kedua diikuti oleh 7 peserta dari SurveyMETER termasuk direktur eksekutif Dr Ni Wayan Suriastini MPhil. Kegiatan pilot kedua diikuti oleh Prof Dan Levy dan Jesica dari Harvard

Pengumuman Peserta Lolos Seleksi Disampaikan antara 19 - 29 Januari 2015

Tes seleksi calon enumerator (asisten lapangan) Survei Komunitas dan Fasilitas (KOMFAS) IFLS-5 atau SAKERTI 5 dilaksanakan secara serentak dan pararel di 6 kota (Padang, Medan,

Bandung, Makassar, Yogyakarta, dan Surabaya) dalam seminggu terakhir hingga 18 Januari 2015 kemarin. Beberapa hari sebelum pelaksanaan tes seleksi, SurveyMETER mengkomfirasi pelamar via website yang lolos administrasi dan memenuhi kriteria untuk mengikuti tes seleksi di 6 kota tersebut.

IFLS (Indonesia Family Life Survey), Indonesia's longest-running longutidunal household survey is in the field with projected release of the public data in 2016. See more here:  http://www.rand.org/labor/FLS/IFLS.html