Antara News, Tuesday, April 20, 2010 19:59 WIB
Tampak Siring, Bali (ANTARA News) - Minister of National Development Planning/Head the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) Armida S Alisjahbana said the seven targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are hopefully satisfied by 2015.
"According to several indicators, nationally most of the MDGs have already been met. The government has also received appreciation from the United Nations for what it has achieved so far, and for its commitment to meet all the MDG targets by the end of 2015," she told a press conference at the Tampak Siring Presidential Palace in Bali Tuesday.
She also said that the seven targets are the eradication of poverty and hunger, basic education for everyone, promoting gender equality, empowerment of women, reducing infant mortality, promoting mothers` health, control of HIV and AIDS, malaria and other contagious diseases, and securing the environment.
She also said that right now efforts at meeting the targets were already on track, although some still off track.
"The three still off-track are indicators on the death rate of delivering mothers reaching 100,000 life births, prevention of HIV/AIDS and increase in forest land covering," he said.
For these purposes, he added, the government will increase its focus on disparities in the overall reducing the targets, with the support of all the stakeholders including the government, businesspeopel, the general public and religious leaders.
Armida also wished to reduce the discrepancy between the different regions in reaching the targets, by giving attention to the regions whose performance is still below national average.
"The regions are playing a very important role, and later based on the results of the working meeting solutions will be sought on the basis of the condition of the individual regions to speed up meeting the MDGs, and the more systematic commitments of the regions," he said.
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