BGN Orders SPPG to Expand Beneficiaries to Include Group 3B

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - The National Nutrition Agency (BGN) has requested all Nutrition Fulfilment Service Units (SPPG) to expand the scope of beneficiaries to include pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, and toddlers within the next two weeks. This step is aimed at accelerating stunting prevention efforts while strengthening the national nutrition fulfilment programme.

Deputy Head of BGN for Public Communication and Investigation, Nanik Sudaryati Deyang, stated that the 3B group is the top priority in the Free Nutritious Meals Programme (MBG) because it is deemed most in need of rapid intervention to prevent child growth disorders.

BGN has also urged all SPPG to actively conduct data collection and expand services in their respective work areas.

“Now until two weeks from now, all SPPG must have 3B beneficiaries. Currently, our achievement is around 9 million, while data from the Ministry of Health reaches 22 million to 26 million,” Nanik said in Jakarta on Monday (11/5).

She explained that the government is now adjusting the programme’s focus to ensure nutrition services are more on target and reach the most vulnerable groups at risk of nutritional problems.

Through this step, BGN hopes that the distribution of nutrition assistance can be more equitable and accelerate improvements in public health quality, especially for young children.

Nanik also emphasised that every SPPG is obliged to increase the number of 3B category beneficiaries. If unable to meet the set targets, the related SPPG operations will be temporarily suspended.

“If the 3B beneficiaries in SPPG are still few, then the SPPG will be suspended,” she stressed.

That suspension policy, she continued, is taken to ensure all programme implementers continue to carry out the government’s main mandate, namely improving the nutritional status of the community and reducing national stunting rates.