Jakarta, April 29 -- Minister of Population and Family Development Wihaji has praised the West Java provincial government for providing scholarships to families using family planning measures.

According to a ministry statement received here on Tuesday, he expressed strong support for the West Java province's plan to grant the scholarships and emphasized the importance of cross-sector collaboration to achieve family planning goals.

"The ministry's role in controlling population growth is primarily through contraceptive methods. Therefore, population control requires collaboration among ministries and agencies from the center down to the villages," he said at the West Java People's Welfare Coordination Meeting.

At the meeting, held in Ba...