Outgoing President Joko Widodo's government has built food estates across Indonesia - including in Papua - to promote self-sufficiency.
Outgoing President Joko Widodo's government has built food estates across Indonesia - including in Papua - to promote self-sufficiency.
And while the cause of malnutrition is multi-faceted, Dr Bernadette Ekasoeci said that a lack of availability of nutritious food contributes to the problem, and Papua - where four-year-old Berto lives - is struggling with food security issues. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
“If one criteria is not , it will affect everything, and a region will be prone to food insecurity,” said Mdm Lunanka. Economic development has mainly been on Java island, about 3,500km away, which is about the distance from Jakarta to Taiwan.Food biochemistry lecturer Dr Vita Purnamasari from Papua’s Cendrawasih University concurred with Mdm Lunanka’s views, adding that Papua’s vast terrains - ranging from coastal areas to lowland rainforests, highlands, and rugged mountainous regions - make it difficult to ensure a reliable food distribution network.
Infrastructure, such as roads to connect one area to another, is also limited in Papua, making the cost of transporting food high. Food estates are food plantations that are usually run by local farmers and funded by the government.While it is meant to serve the entire country, the corn food estate was to provide Papuans with better access to the crop and to enhance the income of local farmers.
She said the farmers need to be backed by resources, but it takes time for the local government to get the budget for the food estate.
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