Jakarta - Lumbung Pangan Foundation Signs Deal to Cooperate on Food Security

The Jakarta Provincial Government is collaborating with the Indonesian Food Barn Foundation to improve food security in Jakarta, especially for vulnerable groups.

Last year we had had the Large-Scale Social Collaboration (KSBB), where more than 100,000 food packages given to Jakarta

Acting Assistant for People's Welfare Suharti expressed that the aid would be provided to various parties in need in the form of basic necessities and several others including training.

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"Last year we had had the Large-Scale Social Collaboration (KSBB), where more than 100,000 food packages given to Jakarta in accordance with the Social Agency's data published by the Communication, Informatic and Statistic Agency (Diskominfotik)," she expressed, after the signing of a collaboration agreement at Jakarta City Hall, Thursday (4/15).

Indonesian Food Barn Foundation Chairman Wida Septarina Wijayanti said her party was ready to help the needy, especially amid the Coronavirus outbreak. Even, this year, she distributed the aid to victims of Coronavirus and disaster such as fire and flood.

"Our target is all regions, where the point is for food security. The data we get from the city government," she said.

In the agreement, she explained, it was about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which is to end hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture, requires cooperation with various parties, especially to improve the food security of vulnerable groups, including pregnant women and nursing mothers, children, teenage girl, the elderly, people with disabilities, and the poor in Jakarta.

"Cooperation is stated to be important in realizing increased food security for vulnerable groups in the context of achieving the action plan as mandated in the SDGs," she stated.

As for the information, food security is a condition of fulfilling food for the state to individuals, which is reflected in the availability of food in a good quantity and quality, safe, diverse, nutritious, equitable, affordable, and does not conflict with the religion, belief and culture of the community, in order to live a healthy life. active, and productive in a sustainable manner.