Day: March 11, 2022

Involvement of various stakeholders, including the government, academicians, entrepreneurs, community, and media, is necessary to suppress the stunting prevalence rate in Indonesia, People’s Consultative Assembly (MPR) Deputy Speaker Lestari Moerdijat stated.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many parties in various sectors to lose their focus in the efforts to handle problems in their respective fields,” Moerdijat noted in a written statement on Friday.

“Fulfilling the infants’ nutritional needs should continue to become the focus of handling, so that future generations can be safe from stunting,” she stressed.

Stakeholders should give serious attention to the future of the next generation from the threat of stunting, she affirmed.

“Sustainable and measured efforts in handling stunting within the nation are very necessary,” she remarked.

Data from the National Population and Family Planning Agency (BKKBN) stated that Indonesia still had the highest stunting prevalence rate at 24.4 percent.

From this figure, it can be concluded that one out of four children in Indonesia experienced stunting.

This figure is above the standard rate set by the World Health Organization (WHO) at below 20 percent.

According to Moerdijat, the fact that one out of four children experience stunting is a situation that should be handled immediately, so that various potentials of the next generation can be developed optimally.

The effort to handle stunting necessitates cooperation of all parties starting from families up to stakeholders at the central government level.

“Knowledge on the importance of good nutrition for infants should continue to be intensified and disseminated,” the deputy speaker stressed.

Thus, all families understand what they should consume, so that all family members are nutritionally fulfilled.

She also urged stakeholders to promptly implement strategic and measured steps to curb the stunting rate in Indonesia.

“Shared understanding from various parties is necessary for sound collaboration to realize a future generation having nutritional adequacy,” Moerdijat stated.

Source: Antara News

Indonesia’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) ensures that the national economy will continue to grow during the energy transition from fossil fuels to new and renewable energy.

The ministry’s Director-General of New, Renewable Energy, and Energy Conservation Dadan Kusdiana said his side will ensure that the energy transition processes did not have a socio-economic impact.

“The community’s energy supply would remain guaranteed. People would still be able to buy electricity and fuel according to their abilities. At the same time, we continue to reduce greenhouse gases, especially in the energy sector,” Kusdiana noted during an online dialogue regarding energy transition to realize green economic development on Friday.

During the energy transition period, Indonesia will utilize the various available resources gradually and accelerate the process involving various stakeholders, he affirmed.

According to Kusdiana, the government was not keen to witness a sudden acceleration of the transition by utilizing renewable energy. The government assumed it would create problems in terms of electricity supply, akin to several cases in European countries recently.

The Indonesian government will bring up the issue of energy transition during the G20 presidency since the forum is able to voice energy management at the world level.

Kusdiana further expressed hope that the idea regarding energy transition aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions would be heard by all participants during Indonesia’s G20 presidency.

“Hopefully, this idea would be heard by all. President Joko Widodo will propose the initiation for energy transition as one of the topics that will be discussed specifically at the Energy Sustainability Working Group (ETWG) G20,” he stated.

In the energy transition roadmap, the government is committed to achieving a 23-percent share of the new and renewable energy in the energy mix by 2025. By the end of 2021, the share of new and renewable energy in the energy mix had reached around 11.7 percent.

After 2030, additional power generation will only be coming from new and renewable energy. Starting in 2035, electricity will be generated largely by using variable renewable energy resources, such as solar power, followed by power generation from wind and ocean currents in the following year.

Hydrogen will also be used gradually starting in 2031 and massively in 2051. Thereafter, nuclear power will be included in the generation system starting in 2049, he noted.

In an effort to achieve the new and renewable energy mix target, the ministry has passed regulations related to rooftop solar power plants. The government has targeted to install rooftop solar panels of an additional 3.6-gigawatt capacity by 2025, Kusdiana stated.

Source: Antara News

Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection Ministry’s official highlighted that endeavors to encourage women’s leadership in the private sector had been discussed at the G20 Empower.

During a webinar on Friday, People’s Participation Acting Deputy at the Ministry Indra Gunawan explained that G20 Empower had been led by a chair and co-chair from representatives from the government and private sector.

Gunawan expects that the G20 Empower will foster sound collaboration between various private sectors in G20 member countries to increase women’s leadership in the private sector.

Later, they will also identify various challenges and support several advancements to bolster women’s leadership in the private sector.

Women leaders in various major corporations will participate to become Indonesia’s representatives during the G20 Empower, Gunawan added.

The ministry expects that through this representation of women, policies within corporations will focus more on women’s issues and gender equality.

Earlier, Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection Minister Bintang Puspayoga had stated that her ministry was striving to encourage the private sector to promote gender equality in the working world.

This is being conducted through a G20 working group, specifically G20 Empower, Puspayoga noted in a press statement issued on Thursday.

One way to promote gender equality is by requesting C-level executives to promote women leaders and economic development through practices that can be replicated, whether nationally or in G20 countries, she stated.

The effort to involve the private sector is being made to support the acceleration of gender equality in Indonesia amid the momentum afforded by International Women’s Day, she stressed.

The G20 Empower, or the G20 Alliance for the Empowerment and Progression of Women’s Economic Representation, aims to expedite women’s leadership and empowerment in the private sector.

Source: Antara News