JAKARTA - Head of the National Nutrition Agency (BGN), Dadan Hindayana, said that world philanthropic figure Bill Gates appreciated and was amazed by the implementation of the Free Nutrition Food (MBG) program in Indonesia.
He made this point after accompanying President Prabowo Subianto with Bill Gates while visiting the MBG implementation at SD Negeri Jati 03, Jakarta, Wednesday, May 7.
"He is very impressed because to do this, it will definitely require a fairly large budget and the president said that it had been prepared by the Indonesian government. And then he was impressed by what was done," he explained, quoted from the Cabinet Secretariat website.
Dadan said Bill Gates paid attention to the importance of nutritional intake, especially for pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, and toddlers. He also sees the MBG program as an integral part of the government's long-term efforts to create a healthy and productive generation.
"In his opinion, this is a very important program and especially he emphasized on the first thousand days, namely pregnant women, breastfeeding, toddlers as well as children who still need growth," he continued.
In addition, Dadan revealed, visits to SDN Jati 03 were sudden and were not specially designed. Even for the food menu given to children today there is also no special preparation.
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"So this is really impromptu. We don't know which school we want to go to and we just found out in the morning. So whatever happens here is not a setting, it's what it is," he said.
In addition to reviewing the implementation of MBG, President Prabowo and Bill Gates also reviewed the health check area for students to get basic health check services for free. There, the two public figures directly observed the process of examining height, weight, blood pressure, and examining teeth and ears.
Meanwhile, the Principal of SDN Jati 03, Retnaningsih expressed the enthusiasm of the children to welcome the presence of President Prabowo and Bill Gates. "The enthusiasm of parents and children is also very, very enthusiastic. Hopefully, it can bring Jati 03 forward, our service to children is also getting better," he hoped.
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