These 16 Provinces Are Actively Campaigning For The Food Save Movement

Banyuwangi organic rice is spread across tens of thousands of modern markets. (DOC. ANTARA)

PekanBARU - The government has activated food-saving movements in 16 provinces, namely North Sumatra, Riau, Riau Islands, South Sumatra, Lampung, Banten, West Java, DI Yogyakarta, Central Java, East Java, Bali, West Nusa Tenggara, South Sulawesi, North Sulawesi, East Kalimantan, and South Kalimantan.

"The sixteen provinces are active in campaigning for the food-saving movement, with a policy umbrella through a governor's circular, which is followed up, among others, by taking action to save food through various competitions and installing billboards to prevent food waste," said the Intermediate Food Security Analyst at the National Food Agency Febrina Cholida STP MSI, quoted from ANTARA, Tuesday, June 18.

According to Febrina, the food-saving movement was also carried out by intensifying socialization, synergy with district and city government agencies, the private sector, Baznas, as well as disseminating promotional and socialization media to the public.

In addition, he said again, his party also recruited volunteers, students, community members, families to the use of food logistics cars to support efforts to distribute excess food donations with the Jabodetabek pilot project.

"The government has started this food rescue movement in 2022 as a Jabodetabek piloting, in 2023 it will involve 12 provinces in the service that handles food affairs, and even in 2024 there will be 15 offices that handle food affairs in 15 provinces," he said again.

These various related sectors, he also said, were involved in maintaining food security and nutrition, Indonesia's commitment to preventing and reducing food loss and waste is the movement to stop wasteful food and food waste more as a form of concern for the National Food Agency in saving Indonesian food.

For this reason, Bapanas supports strengthening regulations, changing behavior, increasing system support, optimizing funding, developing policies, utilizing and collecting food loss and waste data.

"It is very important for every country to prevent and reduce food loss and waste, we need global collaboration in suppressing food loss and waste considering its impact on food and nutrition security," he said again.

Moreover, in Indonesia every year 23 million-48 million tons of food are wasted into waste, economic losses reach IDR 213 trillion-IDR 551 trillion (4-5 percent of GDP) and if food-saving will be able to feed 61 million-125 million Indonesians.