Community and social support concept in Indonesia: Various ethnic and cultural aspects

Indonesia as the largest archipelago country in the world, with various ethnicities and ethics and there is a varied cul -ture and social structure with health problems that need problem solving according to local wisdom that exists in each community. The culture of mutual cooperation (gotong royong) which is a way of thinking and acting in solving problems that exist in society from generation to generation must be preserved. The Alert village is the social support of the community to overcome problems and find solutions together with the principle of community togetherness according to the principle of mutual cooperation (gotong royong), so that community empowerment is important to do so that the community solves the problem with local wis-dom that exists in the community independently. The role of obstetrics and gynecology specialists is very important in empowering communities in the village and activating and empowering village health posts consisting of at least a mid-wife and two cadres to work together with the community to seek and find health problems that exist in the community as well as efforts to solve the problem in order to increase the degree of public health and reduce maternal and infant mortality in the community itself.