The Importance Of Community Roles, IKWI And West Jakarta City PKK TP Holds Stunting Seminars

The Seminar Prevents Stunting will be held by PWI. (IST)

JAKARTA - As an effort to prevent and provide understanding and education to the public, the Indonesian Journalists Family Association (IKWI) collaborated with the Indonesian Journalists Association (PWI) of West Jakarta to hold a stunting seminar on Tuesday, April 23, 2024.

The THEME "The Importance of Community's Role in Preventing Stunting Against Children", the stunting seminar will be held at Ali Sadikin Hall Lt. 1 Building A of the West Jakarta City Administration Government Office.

In this activity, IKWI West Jakarta collaborated with the West Jakarta City Welfare and Family Welfare Mobilization Team (TP PKK) and the West Jakarta Administrative City Government (Pemkot).

Not only that, all leaders of RSUD and Puskesmas throughout West Jakarta, as well as a number of female organizations such as Srikandi Pemuda Pancasila, Srikandi Nusantara, and the Ustadzah Communication Forum were also invited to the seminar.

This stunting seminar will present 4 participants, namely from the Indonesian Ministry of Health by the Head of the Communication and Public Service Bureau, Dr. Siti Nadia Tarmizi, West Jakarta Health Sub-department Dr. Asri Yunita, Tarumanegara University Lecturer Dr. Herwanto, and Dr. Sang Arifianto Fajar Adi Kusuma from Kaliders Hospital.

Kestimona Sinaga, Chairman of IKWI West Jakarta, explained that his party deliberately held the stunting seminar.

In addition to being a tangible manifestation of the IKWI program towards government programs, the seminar was an effort and contribution from IKWI West Jakarta to prevent stunting in the West Jakarta area.

"The problem of stunting is quite a crucial problem, considering the stunting rate is still quite high. So we as a female organization under the auspices of the Indonesian Journalists Association care about this stunting problem," said Kestimona in a written statement, Saturday (20/4/2024).

Kestimona hopes that through this seminar, people who participate in being participants can get complete information about problems and solutions to prevent stunting.

Participants who take part in the seminar can also be a source of information that can be conveyed to the community in their respective environments.

In addition to the City Government and the West Jakarta PKK TP, this stunting seminar, continued Kestimona, received appreciation from a number of stakeholders in the West Jakarta area, such as the West Jakarta Health Sub-dept., the West Jakarta Kejari Adhyaksa Dharmakarini Association (IAD), the West Jakarta Sub-dept. of Communication, Informatics and Statistics (Kominfotik).