PPPA Deputy Minister Veronica Tan Expressed The Important Role Of Teachers And Parents In Fulfilling Children's Nutrition

Deputy Minister of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA) Veronica Tan. (Photo: Adelia/VOI)

JAKARTA - Deputy Minister of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA), Veronica Tan emphasized the importance of collaboration between parents and teachers in supporting the fulfillment of child nutrition.

This needs to be done so that children can grow and develop optimally accordingly. Food intake that is not in accordance with nutritional content can cause cognitive and physical growth of children to be disrupted.

Like health problems that are still faced by Indonesian children, stunting is a chronic nutrition problem. This happens by children due to lack of nutritional intake. This is a concern, because the problem of stunting determines the future.

This was conveyed by Veronica Tan at the 'Implementation of Gastronomi Indonesia-based Character Education' organized by the Indonesian Gastronomy Community (IGC).

"We all have to collaborate. Schools provide nutritious food. But when we are at home we don't get nutrition. If not (the school and parents) a group is made how they provide healthy, nutritious food," said Veronica, when met at the Ambhara Hotel, Blok M, Jakarta on Saturday, December 14, 2024.

"Back home again, the mother is not educated to provide good nutrition regarding balanced carbo protein. This will not be a continuity program, but only schools will move," he continued.

Basuki Tjahaja Purnama or Ahok's ex-wife said that often parents lose development with their children. This is because digital development is getting faster. Digitization has a good and negative impact on children's growth and development.

In every era of change, including the role of parents, must also change. Moreover, children who live in the era of the digital era, must have different lives in the 80s era, so that the education and nutrition food and drinks given by their parents to their children are also different.

"There is no age limit for education. As long as we want to learn, anyone is not just a mother, anyone wants to change. Because times continue to change, especially digitally now, AI doesn't avoid that," he explained.

"But how can we use that technology to become our communicative tool for positive energy, education, education, especially now that negative is spread faster through the media," he added.

On the other hand, interesting and educational media, children can learn about health, safety, the environment and other social values.

"We invite all media, let's together create a movement to educate our children, such as advertisements for only 30 seconds. This is a joint movement to provide education to families, be it father, mother and child." he added.