JAKARTA - Deputy Coordinating Minister for Food and Agriculture Hanif Faisol Nurofiq encourages the strengthening of public milk consumption as an effort to improve nutritional quality, health, and competitiveness to create the Indonesian Golden Generation 2045.
"Let's save our nation, by saving our generation. Let's continue to promote drinking milk every day," said Hanif as quoted by ANTARA, Sunday, June 14.
He highlighted the low consumption of milk by the Indonesian people, which is only equivalent to one spoon per day on average and needs to be immediately increased.
Hanif assessed that increasing milk consumption is an important step in strengthening the quality of Indonesian human resources towards a healthy and productive generation.
He said the current national milk consumption was still around 16.2 to 16.8 liters per capita per year or equivalent to about one spoonful of milk per person every day.
This figure is considered still far from the ideal needs to support bone growth, brain development, and the improvement of the quality of public health sustainably.
He said milk contains various essential nutrients such as protein, calcium, potassium, vitamin A, vitamin B12, and vitamin D that the body needs.
He emphasized that the availability of adequate nutrition is an important factor in maintaining the quality of productive generations who will be the driving force of national development in the future.
Hanif emphasized that increasing milk consumption must be a joint movement involving the government, business world, academics, and all levels of society.
"Immediately encourage the spirit of drinking milk. It is mandatory, because until today only one spoon (milk consumption), we don't want to lose any of our generations every day. Build a climate, industrialization," he said.
According to him, these efforts should not stop at the commemoration of National Milk Day, but must be realized in changing the daily consumption patterns of the community.
He reminded that Indonesia is enjoying a demographic bonus so that strengthening the quality of human resources is a very strategic agenda for the future of the nation.
Therefore, education regarding the importance of milk consumption needs to continue to be expanded so that public awareness of nutritional fulfillment increases.
Through the 2026 Nusantara Milk Day commemoration, Hanif hopes that the milk drinking movement can become an important part in supporting the realization of a superior generation towards the Golden Indonesia 2045.
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