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Breastfeeding crucial to prevent dwarfism in children: Professor

The breastfeeding phase plays an important role in preventing dwarfism in children, the University of Indonesia (UI) ...

MPR deputy speaker calls for nutritional adequacy in children

People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Deputy Speaker Lestari Moerdijat has urged the government and all elements of ...

Premature births posing challenge to stunting reduction efforts: BKKBN

Premature births are posing a challenge to efforts to reduce stunting nationally, National Population and Family ...

West Nusa Tenggara must address stunting promptly: ministry

The Home Affairs Ministry has urged the West Nusa Tenggara government to push for the handling of stunting, citing 2021 ...

Ministry expands mobile X-ray service to cut TB transmission

The Health Ministry has expanded the X-ray mobile service to intensify the tracking of active tuberculosis (TB) cases ...

Ministry calls for aligning regional, national development

Regional development must be integrated with national development, Secretary General of the Home Affairs Ministry, ...

Increasing clean water access, sanitation facilities reduce stunting

Increasing access to clean water and proper sanitation facilities could suppress the rate of stunting in children, ...

Ensuring safe environment for working women requires collective effort

Public Participation Deputy at the Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection Indra Gunawan pressed for ...

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Ministries join hands in fight against stunting

The Indonesian government has been fighting against stunting, which is characterized by growth failure in children ...

Gov't to distribute ultrasound equipment to all health centers

The Ministry of Health will distribute medical ultrasound equipment to all community health centers (puskesmas) in ...

Stunting can be reduced through health protocol compliance: Minister

Stunting prevalence can be reduced quickly if all parties follow the health protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Uninhabitable houses are among factors causing stunting in NTT: Jokowi

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) on Thursday drew attention to the fact that uninhabitable houses had become one of the ...

Jokowi's visit shows seriousness to reduce stunting in NTT: BKKBN

President Joko Widodo's (Jokowi's) visit to Kesetnana Village, South Mollo Sub-district, East Nusa Tenggara ...

BKKBN pushes stunting reduction in 12 priority provinces

Head of the National Population and Family Planning Agency (BKKBN) Hasto Wardoyo stated that the BKKBN pushed child ...

Indonesia should emulate other countries to reduce stunting: BKKBN

Indonesia should mimic several interventions made by other nations, so that the stunting prevalence rate can decline to ...