2024-07-11 23:56:09
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 – 19:47 WIB
Indonesian Public Health Expert Hermawan Saputra (second right). Photo: Doc. JPNN.com
jpnn.comJAKARTA – Indonesian Public Health Expert Hermawan Saputra agrees with economist and SDGs advocate under the UN Secretary General Jeffrey Sachs who said that the free nutritious meal program is a form of investment as well as an effective way for countries to improve the nutrition of their people.
Hermawan is optimistic that the free lunch program, which has now been renamed free nutritious meals in the administration of President and Vice President-elect Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka, will be an important and effective investment for improving nutrition.
According to him, this could be a good momentum if the free nutritious meal program is properly monitored, it is believed that it will bring Indonesia to realize the ideals of Golden Indonesia 2045.
“It is effective if supervised by public health experts if supervised by health nutrition practitioners, which means that this must shift from a free lunch campaign to free nutritious meals. Well, this nutritious meal idea must really improve nutrition,” said Hermawan, Wednesday (10/7/2024).
Hermawan, who is also the general chairman of the Indonesian Public Health Association (IAKMI), said that there must be appropriate government intervention to improve nutrition so that Indonesian children and adolescents in the future will have excellent cognition, intelligence and endurance.
“So, we will have the ideal of a golden Indonesia in 2045, so if we really try to carry out specific interventions appropriately at the age of children and adolescents, then the next 21 years will have an impact, especially on aspects of cognition, reasoning power, intelligence thinking power, aspects of endurance and physical condition and aspects of growth and development itself, making forms of intervention,” he said.
Through this program, Hermawan also hopes that it can be a gateway to controlling excessive consumption of sugar, salt and fat which can result in the risk of disease.
This is because Indonesia is the country with the highest diabetes rate in ASEAN.
Indonesian Public Health expert Hermawan Saputra agrees with economist Jeffrey Sachs on the nutritious eating program.
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