Prabowo Talks About Free Lunch Programs So A Strategy To Eliminate Poverty

The presidential candidate number 02 Prabowo Subianto stated that the free lunch program would improve the nutrition of Indonesian children.

"One of our proofs is that we are determined to start eliminating poverty, namely a nutritious lunch program for Indonesian children," Prabowo said while attending the consolidation of political parties throughout North Sumatra in Medan on the 47th day of the campaign, reported by ANTARA, Saturday, January 13.

In addition to providing nutritious food for children, this program is also given to children who are still pregnant or pregnant women.

"The goal is for our children to grow up smart, strong, eliminate stunting and others," he said.

He said the free lunch program was one of his plans and determination from his side to the community to improve nutrition.

"This is our determination, this is our plan, this is our strategy, for that to volunteers, the regional campaign team (TKD), the Advanced Indonesia Coalition, convey it to the wider people," he said.

Previously, the Prabowo-Gibran National Campaign Team (TKN) Expert Council, Dradjad Wibowo, said that the commitment of the number two pair to improve the quality of human resources (HR) would have a good effect on the country's economic growth.

"Mr. Prabowo's commitment to improve the competence of our human resources is on the right track. Because there is no developed country without quality human resources," said Dradjad.

He said, Indonesia, which currently has a median age of 29 years, is dominated by the millennial generation and Generation Z will be able to increase the country's economic growth.

The free Prabowo-Gibran lunch and milk program is a concrete manifestation of improving the quality of human resources (HR).

"With the free lunch and milk program, Pak Prabowo has a vision to create equal distribution of nutrition from the womb. This means that the inequality of human resources that has occurred so far due to the economic gap will run low. Because each child has the opportunity to get sufficient nutrition for its growth," he said.