Thousand Islands Regency is committed to prevent stunting in the region by intensifying socialization, education, and providing food assistance to meet nutritional needs of residents.

It includes counseling, education about nutritional intake for children and toddlers, and providing additional food for them

Thousand Islands Assistance for Governance and People's Welfare, Suroso Budijanto stated, through various policies and efforts that have been made, Thousand Islands Regency is ready to take a part in performance assessment for Stunting Reduction and Prevention in 2020 at Jakarta Province level.

"Our performance in preventing stunting will be assessed from October 26. Indicators for this assessment are our efforts in preventing stunting in children in Thousand Islands," he said after leading a meeting to prepare and evaluate regency's performance in preventing stunting at Mitra Praja Office, Sunter, North Jakarta, on Thursday (10/15).

Meanwhile, Thousand Islands Health Sub-agency Head, Sahruna conveyed, administrative assessment would be carried out through summary of actions that have been carried out by UKPD in preventing and reducing stunting cases in Thousand Islands.

"It includes counseling, education about nutritional intake for children and toddlers, and providing additional food for them," he mentioned.

In order to ensure children's growth and development goes well, he assessed, his side needs to ensure fulfill maternal nutrition during pregnancy.

"Pregnant women should pay attention to nutrition of foods they consume thus their children's nutritional intakes can be fulfilled," he closed.