Improving Balanced Nutrition Becomes The New Form Of Normal For Indonesian Families

JAKARTA - During the pandemic, many people were forced to reduce their activities outside their homes. Various methods are used to meet economic and nutritional needs while at home to minimize contact from the COVID-19 virus.

Coinciding with Nutrition and Food Day, Frisian Flag Indonesia (FFI) together with the Association of Nutrition and Food Experts (PERGIZI PANGAN) Indonesia held a webinar entitled #IndonesiaSIAP The Role of Women in Building Healthy and Strong Families through Fulfilling Balanced Nutrition '.

"We are aware of the importance of the role of mothers and women in the recovery of health, social and economic sectors in the midst of a pandemic situation such as today," said Corporate Affairs Director of PT Frisian Flag Indonesia, Andrew F. Saputro, in a written statement, Friday, January 29.

According to Andrew, recently the issue of malnutrition in families in the midst of a pandemic has increased. For this reason, Andrew hopes that this education can empower mothers and women to increase their nutrition awareness behavior.

Not only that, FFI also provides quality nutritious products in the form of Frisian Flag Kompleta powdered milk which reaches up to 10 thousand families in the South Sumatra area to support improved nutritional status.

"The availability of affordable nutritious products and education to build nutritional literacy are the efforts needed at this time. Collaboration is the key to success in building community nutritional literacy," said Andrew.

He also hopes that the #IndonesiaSIAP initiative can bridge family members in living new normalcy. Included in the concern to increase insight and knowledge about food and nutrition.

Apart from Frisian Flag, Pergizi Pangan Indonesia also continues to collaborate with the government and various related parties to be able to disseminate people's insights and understanding of nutrition improvement.

"PERGIZI PANGAN Indonesia continues to work together with the government and various related parties to be able to disseminate public insights and understanding on nutrition improvement," said the Chairman of PERGIZI PANGAN Indonesia, Lucy Widasari.

Efforts to improve nutrition are a strategic investment in terms of the quality of human resources. This goal is also in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), one of the points is to eliminate all malnutrition by 2030.