Vice President Says Mother's Love Determines Future Generation Quality

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Vice President (Vice President) Ma'ruf Amin said that a mother's love and affection greatly determines the quality of future generations.

The message was conveyed in an upload on the official Instagram account, on Friday morning, in commemoration of Mother's Day which falls every December 22.

"Healthy, intelligent, stunt-free, and still uphold religious values and have noble character," said Vice President Ma'ruf Amin explaining the quality of future generations that Indonesia hopes.

On various occasions, the Vice President always reminded the public that stunting is a big problem that is urgent to solve together and the role of mothers or women is very large in overcoming stunting problems, ranging from prevention from marriage to pregnancy to the first 1,000 days of a child's life.

The Vice President highlighted a number of stunting impacts on children that could undermine Indonesia's chances of making a leap in progress in the golden years peaking demographic bonuses.

He explained that stunting does not only have an impact on a child's physical condition, but also on his health and his thinking skills.

stunting children will later grow into adult people whose productivity is low, which in the end will hinder economic growth, and cause more problems of inequality and poverty. In other words, the next generation who stunted will certainly bring the future of a stunted nation too," said the Vice President during his working visit to Jember, East Java, early last December.

Therefore, he said, the government continues to strive to reduce stunting rates in children. Currently, the government is accelerating to achieve the stunting prevalence target to decrease to 14 percent by 2024.

Various efforts by the government have succeeded in reducing stunting prevalence from 30.8 percent in 2018 to 21.6 percent in 2022.