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Policy Brief Nutritional Inequality of Poor Children in Indonesia
Despite significant economic growth and declining poverty in Indonesia in recent years, child malnutrition is a long-term problem for the country. Among developing countries, Indonesia has a stable economic growth rate of around 5 per cent per annum, while, since 2018, the poverty rate has fallen to below 10 per cent. Nevertheless, these records are tainted by the prevalence of child malnutrition, specifically among children under five years of age. A common measure of malnutrition is the height-for-age z-score (HAZ)– that is, under -2 standard deviation (SD) and under -3 SD for severe acute malnourished children. Officially, the Government of Indonesia, through the Ministry of Health, revealed that, in 2013 and 2018, the rates of malnourished children were 27.2 per cent and 30.8 per cent respectively–exceeding the WHO standard of 20 per cent.
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