The Jakarta Post, Fri, 11/13/2009 4:02 PM
Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Agung Laksono announced Friday a plan to form a state agency to deal with improvement of public nutrition.
Agung said the planned National Nutrition Body would aim to support the acceleration of health development in the country.
“We hope to resolve the nutrition problems people face from the upper to lower income groups,” he told a meeting organized by the Indonesian Nutritionists Association in Surabaya.
He added the nutrition body would resemble the National Narcotics Body in the field of anti-drug campaigning.
“Hopefully, the nutrition body will contribute to the government’s efforts to promote public awareness of nutrition and develop a healthy nation,” Agung said.
Poverty has been blamed for malnutrition cases in some parts of the country.

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