Mimika Regency Government Seriously Handles Stunting Cases

MIMIKA - Mimika Regency Government (Pemkab), Central Papua Province pays serious attention to handling stunting cases by forming a Stunting Reduction Acceleration Team (TPPS).

"This TPPS is divided into four jobs, namely the secretariat, changes in family behavior and assistance, coordinators of convergence and planning and finally data, monitoring, evaluation and collapse management," said Expert Staff of the Regent for politics, law and government of Mimika Septinus Timang as reported by ANTARA in Timika, August 12.

According to Septinus, TPPS is responsible for preparing an integrated stunting reduction budget plan and socializing an integrated stunting reduction intervention plan for all stakeholders in the region.

"In addition, it also coordinates and carries out evaluation monitoring as well as preparing reports on monitoring and evaluation results," he said.

He explained that apart from the district level TPPS, the district level has also been formed and strengthened by the Mimika District Regent's Decree.

He added that the integrated stunting reduction intervention was carried out with eight actions.

"Eight actions include an analysis of the stunting reduction program situation, preparation of activity plans, stunting braking, regent regulations on village roles, guidance of human development cadres, stunting data management system, measurement and publication of stunting data and revised annual performance," he said.