BANYUWANGI, JOURNALNEWS – Banyuwangi Regent Ipuk Fiestiandani is again undergoing the "Regent Ngantor in the Village" program (Village Flowers)”. This time Ipuk has offices in three villages in Glagah District, namely Tamansuruh Village, Gnawing, and Glagah. In these three villages, Ipuk launched various programs, start education, health, economy, to infrastructure.
In the education sector, one of them is implementing a nutritious lunch program simulation. This simulation was attended by dozens of elementary school students 5 Tamanbaru village, Glagah District on Tuesday (17/9/2024).
"This simulation was carried out as a form of preparation for the regional government to welcome the central government's program regarding nutritious lunches. We want to simulate how it will be implemented, especially technical distribution to students, especially in the future in several villages that are geographically far from the city center,” said Ipuk while accompanying the students to lunch.
The nutritious lunch simulation was carried out by providing a menu in accordance with the balanced nutrition guidelines for the "Fill My Plate" program from the Ministry of Health.
The menu that the students eat consists of rice as a source of carbohydrates, fried sea fish, fried tofu and corn bakwan as a source of protein and citrus fruit as a source of vitamins. The students looked eager to eat the menu.
"Furthermore, this simulation program will be gradually implemented in other schools," added Ipuk.
Ipuk said the national nutritious lunch program would complement a number of education programs that had been implemented in Banyuwangi.
Call it the Powerful Guard (Regional Movement to Adopt Young People Who Have Dropped Out of School) which mobilizes all stakeholders in the region to care for children who have dropped out of school and are vulnerable to dropping out of school so they can continue pursuing education. In the last three years, be found 2.605 students vulnerable to dropping out of school who received assistance of IDR 6.25 billion.
Besides that, There is a program to provide pocket money and transportation money that is accepted 1.722 students in the last three years with a total allocation of IDR 8.26 billion. “Why do we give pocket money assistance? Because there are several factors that make students feel inferior about going to school, for example, during break time, don't buy snacks. Well, the Banyuwangi Regency Government is here to provide pocket money assistance," explained Ipuk.
Next is the Peer Foster Student Program (SAS) namely an awareness program between students. The SAS program has distributed funds of more than IDR 22 billion for students in need.
There is also a Missing the Moon Program, namely the Complete Learning Village Pilot 12 years to increase the average length of schooling by returning out-of-school children (ATS) returning to study in an equivalency education unit.
"All of these intervention programs have had a positive impact on regional education HDI. The average length of schooling increased from 7,66 year in 2022 Becomes 7,76 from 2023. Long-term school expectations also rose from 13,11 from 2022 Becomes 13,12 in 2023," concluded Ipuk. (*)
