Jakarta, March 11 -- Head of the National Population and Family Planning Agency (BKKBN) Hasto Wardoyo called on stakeholders to collaborate in activating data to accelerate stunting reduction.

"Accurate and up-to-date data is key in designing strategies, identifying challenges, and measuring the impacts of interventions. By activating data, measures that are taken can be more accurate," Wardoyo noted in a BKKBN statement here on Monday.

The agency head emphasized that appropriate utilization of data can proffer maximum benefits and contribute to the making of standardized policies that accommodate all, especially in reducing the stunting rate in Indonesia.

Wardoyo revealed that his agency has a main data source, namely the New Siga (fa...