Jakarta. ID Food, the state-owned food holding, is planning to finish distributing the government's anti-stunting assistance in all 7 targeted provinces by this November.

Indonesia is seeking to lower the national stunting rate to 14 percent in 2024. To this end, ID Food --in partnership with the National Food Agency (Bapanas)-- is distributing food assistance for families at risk of stunting in hopes that they can have better access to more nutritious meals. Each food package also consists of chicken meat and eggs. ID Food also works alongside the state-run postal service Pos Indonesia to deliver the packages to the 7 targeted provinces, which include the populous West Java. 

“We are aiming to close the year by distributing [food assistance] to 1.4 million families. But we will try to speed up the distribution,” ID Food’s president director Sis Apik Wijayanto said on the sidelines of the Investor Daily Roundtable at Hutan Kota by Plataran in Jakarta on Tuesday.

“We hope that we can finish the distribution in the 7 of the targeted provinces by November,” Apik said.

As of Monday, ID Food has distributed 243,240 meal assistance packages. 

The assistance will go to 403,593 families in West Java and 374,197 others in East Java. ID Food will also roll out aid for 345,514 families in Central Java, 92,654 households in Banten, and 20,633 others in West Sulawesi. The beneficiaries in North Sumatra total 132,360 families. As many as 73,068 families at risk of stunting in East Nusa Tenggara will get the chicken meat-egg package.