Half Day Seminar “Rice Fortification”
Half Day Seminar
"Current Evidences on Rice Fortification for Improving Nutrition"
Indonesia as a middle-income country, characterised by wide regional disparities: cities with modern shopping malls contrast sharply with the country’s poor rural areas. Indonesia is a member of G20 – the Group of Twenty of the world’s major industrial and emerging economies – and is playing an increasingly important role in the region. Reforming social protection system is anchored firmly as one of the government’s national priorities in the five-year medium-term development plan and will also continue to play a key role in the 2015-2019 development plan. Social protection is seen as one of the foundations for economic growth and social cohesion.
Indonesia has become one of the 17 countries with concerning nutrition problems, placing the country's nutrition status at the same level as African countries. It is conveyed by the Deputy of Human Resources & Culture of Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas). Both under and over nutrition problems are facing...
