BRIN: Free Nutrition Eating Program Will Increase The Focus Of Learning Indonesian Children

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JAKARTA - Head of the Center for Education Research, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Badminton Fizzanty, said that the Free Nutrition Eating Program promoted by Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto was able to increase the focus on learning for Indonesian children.

"The program for improving our children's nutrition is important, because with good nutrition, the ability of the brain to develop, and children can also focus more on learning," saidLA, quoted from Antara, Saturday, November 2.

tip menekankan Program Makan Bergizi Merbahan perlu diterapkan secara hati-hati, sebab kondisi pendidikan dan kesehatan anak Indonesia saat ini beragam.

He said that his party had conducted comprehensive research on various sides, one of which was the lives of students in Papua, where many students came to school without breakfast. The condition of students studying with empty stomachs affects the focus of studying at school.

In addition, he said, there are facts that show the presence of Indonesian children who suffer from stunting, malnutrition, and so on.

However, he continued, not a few students who came to school had breakfast, and even brought food and snacks.

"The condition of the diversity of students and schools is reality. Therefore, this program needs to be carried out carefully, carefully and according to the conditions of the school and the local community," he said.

men suggested that the Free Nutrition Eating Program involve local communities and use nutritious local food ingredients.

"In this way, the positive effect is not only on children, but also on the parents and local community regarding the education of nutritious food, closeness and love local food, and the economic wheels of the local community will rotate," saidten Fizzanty.

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto emphasized that the Free Nutrition Food Program is one of the flagship programs that must be realized. Therefore, the National Nutrition Agency (BGN) was specially formed to accommodate the program.

Previously, the Head of BGN Dadan Hindayana ensured that there were nutritionists who monitored the proportion of nutrition to menu choices for free nutritious eating programs in each service unit.

"It should be noted that in every service unit, we require nutritionists who are educated in higher education, and they already understand the standards of the proportion of nutrition for children, be it for toddlers, PAUD, SD, to SMA, they know the nutritional composition," he said.

Dadan emphasized that the nutritionists not only stop at monitoring the nutritional content of each food, but also ensure that the food menu provided is in accordance with the target taste in each region.

"They will also see how children like in the regions, so that the menus made in the service units are not made simply by nutritionists, but also see and review how much children like these foods, because we hope that the food is really eaten, not redundant, then thrown away," said Dadan Hindayana.