The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Puan Maharani, appreciated the implementation of the cooking rice cooking competition which was held in Semarang City, Central Java because it indirectly made people nervous and cool along with the political year.
"This is an event that I think is very good. I appreciate it. For gathering women from the RT/RW level to participate. Not only his mother, there are fathers and family, the atmosphere is happy," he said in Semarang, quoted by ANTARA, Saturday, August 26.
This was conveyed by Puan, during the "Final Mbak Ita Typical Goreng Rice Competition" which took place at Simpang Lima Field in Semarang, followed by 177 representatives finalists from each village.
According to Puan, fried rice is a typical Indonesian dish so that there are many benefits from the competition initiated by the Semarang City PKK Mobilization Team, especially by paying attention to the nutritional content and price restrictions.
"One very good thing, I appreciate Semarang for always doing things like this. Even if there are shortcomings, in the future it can be improved," he said.
In fact, Puan also encouraged other similar activities to maintain community cohesiveness and cohesiveness ahead of the democratic party event, namely the 2024 General Election and Presidential Election.
"Maybe there are other activities like this, joint activities in Semarang City, we are good, we are cool, we are happy. This is a political year, the activities are related to positive things, then make Semarang City remain safe and the people are happy," he concluded.
Meanwhile, Semarang Mayor Hevearita Gunaryanti Rahayu said that the cooking competition for fried rice also made the community, especially mothers, even more nervous because they often met and cooked together.
"I heard earlier from women who didn't know before, eh, because of the fried rice they have become a joke. Until now. Even though they lost, they still have a WhatsApp group," said Ita, her nickname.
Responding to comments from netizens about the fried rice competition as a campaign event, Ita said the fried rice competition was intended to empower women, especially women.
"Not really (the campaign), for us yes. Maybe there are people (responding) like that, please. We are moving, I happen to be a woman. We want women to be great, can be empowered," he said.
Ita invites women on the sidelines of their busy schedule to be able to serve healthy and nutritious food for families so that they can help prevent stunting from their families.
"As an effort to prevent stunting, live a healthy life, then these women will be able to do business later. You don't have to cook fried rice, you can cook something else. This fried rice is just a breakout for mothers," he said.
Elected as the first winner of the fried rice competition, namely a team from Jangli Village, then Sumbejo Village as the winner of the chant-yel competition, while the overall champion is Gisikdrono Village.
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