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Exclusive breastfeeding important for children's growth: Ministry

The Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture has emphasized the importance of exclusive breastfeeding to ...

Indonesia ranks third globally in leprosy prevalence: Ministry

Indonesia ranked third in the world in the number of cases of leprosy in 2021, according to the Health ...

COVID-19 Kraken sub-variant not yet entered Bali: Official

The Bali Provincial Health Service reported that the newest COVID-19 sub-variant, Kraken, has not entered the ...

Bali prepares five thousand 2nd booster doses for tourism workers

Bali, Perry Markus, said that administration of the second booster will be continued on a cluster-per-cluster ...

Indonesia preparing COVID vaccinations for children under six

The Indonesian government is preparing to roll out COVID-19 vaccinations for children aged six months to less than six ...

Ministry explains rationale for providing biscuits as additional food

The government has been providing biscuits as additional food to children since 2016 due to the limited ability of ...

Stunting prevalence slides in 28 provinces in 2022

The prevalence of childhood stunting declined in as many as 28 Indonesian provinces in 2022, supporting a 2.8-percent ...

Ministry examines biscuits used as additional food against stunting

The Indonesian Health Ministry reported that all suspected moldy biscuits used as additional food (PMT) to reduce ...

Ministry readies Hajj health budget of Rp389.8 bln for 2023

The Health Ministry has prepared a budget of Rp389.8 billion for providing health services during the 1444 Hijri/2023 ...

Government to consider banning e-cigarettes if proven dangerous

The government is contemplating on prohibiting electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) if found to be harmful to public ...

Polish traveller detected with XBB 1.5 in Indonesia: Ministry

The Health Ministry reported that a case of the COVID-19 Kraken subvariant, or XBB 1.5, was detected in Indonesia, as ...

Ministry revving up immunizations lagging due to COVID-19 pandemic

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin stated that the government is catching up on immunization programs that lagged due ...

Posyandus told to provide animal proteins as supplementary food

The National Population and Family Planning Agency (BKKBN) has recommended that animal proteins be provided as ...

How Indonesia addressing stunting on several fronts

Even as it marks the 63rd National Nutrition Day this year, Indonesia is still struggling with childhood ...

Need to provide posyandus anthropometric devices for children: Widodo

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has asked Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin to provide anthropometric devices for ...