For our primary research, we send an online survey using Google forms and personally interview four respondents. The online survey collected 60 responses, in which 61.4% are people under 18, 29,8% 18-30 years old, 8,8% 41-50 years old, 84,2% came from indonesia.
1.Do you think overpopulation is an issue for your area?
2. How bad would you rate the overpopulation in your area?
3. Do you experience any issue in your daily life due to overpopulation?
4. What factors that causes by overpopulation affected you and surrounding the most?
5. Do you think your government is aware of this issue?
6. Should government implement any policy to reduce population growth?
7. Which of the following do you believe is the best way to manage overpopulation?
8. Do you think overpopulation will have negative impact on the future generation?
9. What do you think is the primary causes of overpopulation?
10. Would you personally consider having fewer children to help address overpopulation?
·Respondent 1: Edward W, currently a workday Senior Account Executive and living in Singapore.
·Respondent 2: William T, Currently a entrepreneur and company owner and living in Australia over 20 years
·Respondent 3: Daniel S, Indonesian male, currently a educator and born in Indonesia
·Respondent 4: Maya H, Indonesian women, director of coporate investment banking and living in indonesia
1. What do you think about overpopulation in general?
R1: A huge problem experienced around the world but not in singapore.
R2: Australia's population is around 25 million so its crowded and overpopulated
R3: basically when amount of people exceed amount of homes
R4: when a country experience to much people
2. What factors do you believe contribute to overpopulation the most?
R1: believed to be because of family planning to too big
R2: big sized family
R3: due to big family planning
R4: Due to big familys
3. Do you have difficulties by overpopulation? If so please elaborate.
R1: No because singapore is not really overpopulated
R2: no but i experience traffic due to a lot of people having cars
R3: yes because i always wait for the lift to long
R4: yes because there is too much traffic in indonesia
4. Is your life affected by overpopulation? If so please elaborate.
R1: no because in singapore is not really crowded
R2: not really, because australia is not really overpopulated but there is traffic.
R3: Yes, because of the traffic 5m travel becomes 30m
R4: Yes, because of the heavy traffic everywhere i go
5. How do you cope with overpopulation in your area?
R1: i think the government has done various jobs to make sure this does not happen.
R2: i think you just find a way to deal with it
R3: I would go anywhere an hour early so i wont be late
R4: i would make sure to use a faster path to the location
6. How does overpopulation contribute to unemployment and poverty?
R1: when there is to many people most wont be able to be empoyed
R2: overpopulation means like more people so if too much not all can be employed therefore causing unemployment and when they have no job they will be in poverty
R3: most people cant access to education which is hard to find job
R4: education is limited
7. In what ways does overpopulation impact access to education and healthcare?
R1: when there is too many people there wont be enough school
R2: too many people wont be able to attend school since it can be full
R3: overpopulation can lead to people being unemplayed whick means they cant afford education
R4: many children wont be able to study due to full schools
8. Do you think family should have limit to having children based on their income?
R1: yes so overpopulation can be decreased.
R2: yes so its reduce risk of children living in poverty.
R3: yes because less risk of financial problems
R4: yes to reduce risk of parent not able to afford basic needs
9. What measure have been taken to reduce overpopulation in your country?
R1: yes singapore has apply some policy about birth
R2: yes australian government apply some measurement to avoid overpopulation
R3: yes marriage age has been increased
R4: yes its about a marriage policies
10. Should government make birth control method free and widely available?
R1: yes so people will have less risk of unwanted birth
R2: yes so people wont have to risk their personal wealth to raise a baby
R3: yes for poor people so they have chance to increase income
R4: yes so there wont be overpopulation
11. Should government implement strict family planning policies to control population growth? Why or why not?
R1:yes so people won't experience overpopulation in the future
R2:yes so the country wont be facing poverty risk
R3:yes so the country dont have to give poverty benefits
R4:yes to reduce population
12. Do you think enforcing a child limit per family is a good solution? Why or why not?
R1: yes so the country won't be experiencing overpopulation
R2: yes its a good idea since the world is facing overpopulation
R3 yes its a good idea since indonesia is too crowded
R4 yes so there is less traffic in jakarta
13. Should government offer financial rewards to families with fewer children?
R1: yes so families will feel proud for helping to fight overpopulation
R2: yes so people will control birth rate in country
R3: yes so this can encourage people to contribute to controlling population
R4: yes to help to void over population
