Pursuing Stunting Prevalence Of 14 Percent In 2024, Coordinating Ministry For Human Development And Culture Proposes Additional 5 Priority Provinces For Handling

Illustration of stunting prevention. (Between)

JAKARTA - The Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture (Kemenko PMK) proposed an additional 5 priority provinces for stunting handling.

Deputy for Human Development Policy Support and Equitable Development of the Vice Presidential Secretariat Suprayoga Hadi said the effort was to pursue the target of reducing stunting prevalence by 14 percent in 2024. "We plan to add 5 (provinces). This is a proposal from the Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture, namely Papua West, West Sumatra and another East Kalimantan," he said in Jakarta, Thursday, October 5, confiscated by Antara.

Suprayoga after the opening of the Technical Coordination Meeting (Rakortek) for the Acceleration of Stunting Reduction 2023 said the fifth province, is South Sulawesi with the consideration of being the province outside Java which has the largest population, so it requires special attention. "So it seems that the patient will increase, not only 12 provinces, to around 17 provinces that we will prioritize in 2024. The Implementing Team will likely be reported to the Steering Team tomorrow," he said.

On the same occasion, Deputy for Coordination for Health Quality Improvement for Population Development of the Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture Satya Sananugraha also said the need for special efforts to achieve the target stunting prevalence rate of 14 percent by 2024. For this reason, it is necessary to synergize and coordinate from ministries and institutions as well as various other related parties. Synergy and coordination between ministries and institutions in Presidential Regulation (Perpres) Number 72 of 2021 concerning the Acceleration of Stunting Reduction needs to be increased through activities like today," Satya said.As information, in the last 4 years the National Stunting Prevalence rate has decreased by 9.2 percent, from 30.8 percent in 2018 to 21.6 percent in 2022. To achieve the target stunting prevalence rate of 14 percent in 2024, the government must be able to reduce the prevalence rate by 7.6 percent in the next 2 years.*