Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin and the National Nutrition Agency's head, Dadan Hindayana, have been intensively discussing the plan to carry out the program.
"I have spoken with Mr. Dadan. We agreed to provide the nutritional standards (for the program)," Sadikin remarked after a meeting with Commission IX of the House of Representatives at the Parliament Complex in Jakarta on Thursday.
Meanwhile, he said the program would be implemented by the National Nutrition Agency and related stakeholders.
Head of the National Nutrition Agency Dadan Hindayana had remarked that the Free Nutritious Meal Program would target 82.9 million people in Indonesia.
"In order to run the program, we collaborate with all elements (of society), including the National Population and Family Planning Agency, as we are also given the authority to intervene in nutrition to prevent stunting," he noted.
The National Nutrition Agency has also determined that Village-Owned Enterprises (BUMDes) and cooperatives will be the suppliers of food for the Free Nutritious Meal Program.
The agency will also form a Nutrition Service Unit to support the implementation of the program.
According to Hindayana, service units will be spread across all villages and sub-districts. Every unit is expected to serve three thousand people, including students from early childhood education to high school, pregnant and breastfeeding mothers, as well as toddlers.
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Translator: Tri Meilani Ameliya, Yashinta Difa
Editor: Azis Kurmala
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