Jakarta – Head of the Agency of Domestic Policy Technique (BSKDN) of the Home Affairs Ministry Yusharto Huntoyungo has actually attracted local federal governments to execute local-based food diversity to secure food availability in their regions.
” Regions must consider being closer to the localities in their particular regions, consisting of those associated to food. This is what the BSKDN requires to direct to areas,” he stated, according to a press release received on Monday.
He made the statement while chairing the Meeting for the Execution of Food Diversity Application in the Papua Area here on Monday.
According to him, diversity can become the local federal governments’ effort to minimize homeowners’ reliance on a specific type of food, such as rice. This would allow regions to ensure food accessibility individually for their homeowners, he discussed.
Huntoyungo further said that through the execution of food diversity, individuals could become more active, healthy, and productive.
He noted that Short article 60 paragraph 2 of Law Number 18 of 2012 concerning Food states that the diversity of food intake is focused on increasing people’s awareness and establishing a diet that varies, nutritionally balanced, and safe, in accordance with regional prospective and knowledge.
He recommended 6 local foods as alternatives to rice, such as cassava, corn, bananas, taro, potatoes, and sago.
” Regional governments can offer developments to areas, for example, beginning with the developments in food production machines at sago factories, so that later sago production is not restricted for the district, but is wider than that,” he said.
He informed that up until now, numerous provincial federal governments of new self-governing regions (DOB) in Papua have actually assigned budget plans for the execution of food diversity in their particular regions.
” There is even a province from DOB in Papua that has designated a fund of around Rp30 billion to support food diversification at the regional level,” he included.
He said that Home Affairs Deputy Minister John Wempi Wetimpo has asked his firm to without delay do something about it so that the efforts made by the DOB provinces in Papua can be directed better.
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