Those various programs are expected to strengthen the implementation of RAN Pijar in 2023Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture will prepare a single data dashboard related to welfare issues of school-age children and adolescents.
“The ministry, along with UNFPA, will prepare a single data dashboard regarding the welfare issues of school-age children and adolescents, with data sources from ministries or agencies,” the ministry’s Deputy for Coordination of Health Quality Improvement and Population Development, Agus Suprapto, stated when contacted on Monday.
According to Suprapto, the ministry hoped the dashboard would make it easier to control achievement of ministry/agency indicator targets in the implementation of the National Action Plan for Improving the Welfare of School-Age Children and Adolescents (RAN Pijar).
He noted that the ministry and all stakeholders will also evaluate the implementation and achievement of indicator targets of ministries and agencies in 2022 and plans that will be implemented in 2023.
“Apart from that, providing assistance and implementing the RAN Pijar pilot project in Bali and Yogyakarta Provinces by involving ministries and agencies that are members of the national team to improve the welfare of school-age children and adolescents,” he remarked.
In addition, the ministry is providing assistance to regional governments in creating teams for improving the welfare of school-age children and adolescents in their respective regions, along with the policies and regulations.
“Those various programs are expected to strengthen the implementation of RAN Pijar in 2023,” he stated.
He noted that the welfare encompassed physical welfare, religious welfare, and social welfare.
Suprapto explained that the government continues to make efforts, so that school-age children and adolescents have holistic health, in terms of not only being physically healthy but also mentally and socially.
"Socially healthy can also be interpreted as children having good empathy, good ways of socializing and communicating, not being bullies, and having good manners," he remarked.
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