"Please consolidate Village SDGs data to determine the problem points using micro-based data, in this case, village data," PDTT Minister Abdul Halim Iskandar stated on the sidelines of the National Village-Owned Enterprises (BUMDes) Day event.
The ministry has a village development policy tool called the Village SDGs that contains 18 goals, he noted here on Thursday.
Stunting-related goals within Village SDGs comprise the first Village SDGs goal that is villages without poverty, the second goal concerning villages without starvation, and the fifth goal involving clean water and sanitation.
"The key is, once again, village-level micro scale data and it is already available within the village information system in the form of Village SDGs-based data," Iskandar noted.
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On the occasion, the minister also urged Bintan District Head Roby Kurniawan to continue to consolidate village data in his region to determine the correct policies, including those related to stunting.
Village SDGs data can show villages in crucial need of improvement in terms of poverty, starvation, as well as clean water and sanitation conditions.
On a separate occasion, the National Population and Family Planning Agency's (BKKBN's) official, Nopian Andusti, commended the stunting handling measures in Riau Islands while opening the Bangga Kencana Program's Pre Regional Work Meeting (Rakerda).
He outlined that the stunting figure in Riau Islands declined by 2.2 percent, from 17.6 percent to 15.4 percent, thereby making it the region with the fourth-lowest stunting figure in Indonesia.
"The 2024 national target is to reduce the stunting figure to 14 percent. Riau Islands only needs a 1.4-percent decrease, but I believe that this region can meet the below 10 percent target," he stated on Wednesday.
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