The National Commission on Human Rights has recommended a comprehensive evaluation of the governance of the Nutrition Fulfillment Service Units (SPPG) within the Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) program to strengthen oversight, transparency, and effectiveness in fulfilling people's rights to food and health.
Uli Parulian Sihombing, Commissioner for Studies and Research at the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM), said in Jakarta on Monday that the recommendations were based on a series of studies and monitoring conducted by Komnas HAM through discussions with relevant ministries and institutions, nutrition experts, civil society organizations, the Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM), and field studies in West Kalimantan, West Java, and East Java.
According to Komnas HAM, the MBG program is one of the government's priority programs to improve the nutritional status of children, pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, and toddlers.
However, its implementation still requires strengthening of governance so that the program's objectives can be achieved optimally.
One of the findings of the National Human Rights Commission is the need to sharpen the target beneficiaries so that the program can more effectively reach the groups most in need, including communities in remote, frontier, and outermost (3T) areas, poor families, pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, and toddlers.
"Ensuring that the implementation of the MBG program is only targeted at vulnerable groups and those in greatest need, especially toddlers, pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, students from households in deciles 1 to 4, and/or those in the 3T areas," said Uli.
