JAKARTA. Despite Indonesia’s achievement of becoming the world’s 10th-largest economy, it is struggling to provide adequate childhood nutrition with the number of children suffering from stunted growth remaining high nationwide. “One-third of children in Indonesia are suffering stunted growth,” Iing Mursalin, health and nutrition project specialist at Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Indonesia, told The Jakarta Post on Friday. According to UNICEF data in 2013, Indonesia stood in fifth place among countries with the highest numbers of stunted children around the world.
One third of RI children suffer stunted growth
JAKARTA. Despite Indonesia’s achievement of becoming the world’s 10th-largest economy, it is struggling to provide adequate childhood nutrition with the number of children suffering from stunted growth remaining high nationwide. “One-third of children in Indonesia are suffering stunted growth,” Iing Mursalin, health and nutrition project specialist at Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Indonesia, told The Jakarta Post on Friday. According to UNICEF data in 2013, Indonesia stood in fifth place among countries with the highest numbers of stunted children around the world.