BKKBN And KemenPPPA Collaborate To Face Stunting Challenges

DOK BKKBN

JAKARTA - After the ratification of Presidential Regulation Number 72 of 2021 concerning the Acceleration of Stunting Reduction, the Head of the BKKBN, Doctor Hasto Wardoyo, moved quickly to meet a number of related ministers.

After previously meeting with Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Muhadjir Effendy and Minister of PUPR, Basuki Hadimuljono regarding sanitation and clean water. Doctor Hasto visited the Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (KemenPPPA).

"Collaboration to accelerate the reduction of stunting prevalence with the Ministry of PPPA is very strategically carried out at the City Regency level, because most of the functions of family planning and PP PA are within the scope of the same Regional Apparatus Organization (OPD) or Office, so that if there are integrated activities they can be carried out properly," said the doctor. Hasto during an audience with the Minister of PPPA, Bintang Puspayoga, Friday, August 27.

Hasto said that the factors that influence the incidence of stunting are the condition of the mother during pregnancy and childbirth. The younger the mother's age during pregnancy and childbirth, the more likely she is to give birth to a stunted child.

According to him, mothers with anemia and exposure to cigarette smoke also have an impact on pregnancy and fetal disorders.

“Anemia among young women is still very high at 48 percent, then anemia will be more influential if the teenager is married and pregnant. Teenage girls under the age of 16 who are married and pregnant have a very high risk for their health and of course it will also affect the baby they are carrying,” said Doctor Hasto.

Meanwhile, PPPA Minister Bintang Puspayoga explained that prevention of child marriage is indeed an important key to preventing stunting because this is the upstream.

"In addition, parenting, diet and sanitation must also be a common concern," said Bintang.

According to him, there is a correlation between child marriage and stunting because according to the data, from a province with a high prevalence of stunting in that province, the child marriage rate is also very high. According to him, KemenPPPA is ready to collaborate with BKKBN, because BKKBN also has field workers such as family planning instructors and many cadres so that they can also support the duties and functions of KemenPPPA.

Then Hasto explained about the audience with the Ministry of Religion which has a SIM NIKAH application, the BKKBN asked the bride and groom who are about to get married to report in advance at least 3 months before getting married.

"So that women who want to get married can know their nutritional status, anemia or not," he said.

According to him, in a year on average there are about 2 million marriages if you can do this, it will really help accelerate the reduction of stunting.

Doctor Hasto also highlighted that the distribution of blood-added tablets that had been carried out, according to him, had not been very successful.

"It's not easy to get teenagers to want to take tablets to add blood," he said.

The head of the BKKBN conveyed several things that the BKKBN and KemenPPPA could do, including evaluating the existing regulations and policies for the integration of OPD KB-KPPA.

Then the synergy between the children's forum and Genre (Generation Planning), increasing access to quality services for all children; Utilization of the 2021 Family Data Collection (PK21) data, including women's empowerment in the DAHSAT (Healthy Kitchen Overcome Stunting) and the Collaboration for Gender Responsive Planning and Budgeting (PPRG) to reduce stunting.