Current Status Child Nutrition Indonesia

Studies on the nutritional status of children (South East Asia Nutrition Survey / SEANUTS) for Indonesia show, in general the government nutrition program for infants and children for this still needs to be improved. Indonesia faces a double burden of malnutrition and overnutrition.
In pemaran study in Jakarta, Wednesday (14.11.12), Sandjaja, the chairman of the study, said the condition of micronutrient deficiency, especially vitamin A, anemia, and iodine, are far lower than the results Riskesdas 2010. However, there are other unresolved issues, the number of short children (stunting), which is approximately 34 percent, in contrast slightly with Riskesdas 2010 that figure reached 35 percent. Meanwhile malnutrition still affects 6.9 per cent of Indonesian children.
"Lack of micronutrients can be lowered significantly, even us non-clinical and subclinical deficiency of vitamin A. This means that the government's program of supplementation of high coverage," said Director of Community Nutrition Ministry of Health, Minarto, on the same occasion.

For problems stunting and malnutrition, according to Minarto, not quite settled with supplementation program, but need intervention from pregnancy. Therefore, the government is focusing on the first 1,000 days, ie from pregnancy until the baby is two years old. Another issue raised is nutrition overweight or obese child.
"Compared to neighboring countries, the rate in Indonesia is still small, only 3.1 percent since 2000 but continues to increase," said Sandjaja.
SEANUTS is a survey of the nutritional status of children aged 6 months to 12 years be comprehensive. The study, funded entirely by FrieslandCampina was conducted by Nutritionist Association of Indonesia (PERSAGI) in 48 districts / cities of 25 provinces with 7200 respondents reach of children. The study was also carried out in Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam in collaboration with local universities or institutes.
According Hendro Harijogi, director of public affairs and regulatory affairs FrieslandCampina, the study is expected to complement the existing nutritional data. These four countries were selected because they represent 80 percent of the countries in the ASEAN region. "During the development of products based on studies conducted in Western countries. With SEANUTS, we can know the distribution of the nutritional condition of the new," said Hendro.
He added that the study data is intended open and can be used, but with certain procedures. "Sure, we define a procedure for data can be used in a responsible manner," he said.
SEANUTS conducted in a manner appropriate research with WHO standards. In addition to the questionnaire, data collection is also done with anthropometric and biochemical measurements, and analysis by child health experts.


Source: http://health.kompas.com/read/2012/11/14/14190612/