Surabaya, E Java (Antara) - Vice President Boediono has reminded families of their important role in creating the future of their children. "The important thing we have to realize and remember is that the quality of families is a key to determining the quality of human beings," he said in his address to the commemoration of the National Family Day 2014 in Surabaya, East Java, on Saturday. The quality of human beings is one of the factors to determine the success of a nation, he added. "The success of a nation is inseparable from the role of mothers in shaping the characters of their respective families," he said. A lot of programs related to the empowerment of women had been intensified. The programs included health improvement and poverty eradication, he said. "In these programs, women have served as a spearhead in implementing the programs in the field and in the daily life," he said. Improving the quality of human resources in the world's fourth most populous nation is not easy, he said. "That the country is made up of many islands poses a special challenge to provide adequate services to the public. Therefore, hard and smart work is needed to achieve the goal," he said. Also present at the event, which took place at the soccer field of the Brawijaya regional military command station, were health minister Nafsiah Mboi, chief of the National Demography and Family Planning Board (BKKBN) Fasli Jalal, and East Java governor Soekarwo. The National Family Day was themed "through the family day, we are determined to improve the quality of families in an effort to create a prosperous Indonesia," BKKBN chief Fasli Jalal said. The motto of the National Family Day 2014 is "Small, Happy and Prosperous Families are Future Families of Indonesia." (*) Reporting by Indra Setiawan Edited by INE

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