Improving Quality of Nutrition Services in Indonesia’s Health Sector

This report analyzes the opportunities to improve the quality of frontline nutrition interventions in Indonesia’s health sector as an element of achieving the National Strategy to Accelerate Stunting Prevention (2018–2021) (StraNas Stunting) goals. It uses a framework adapted from the Lancet Global Health Commission’s report on HighQuality Health Systems in the  sustainable Development Goals Era, which explains that improving the quality of nutrition health care requires system-wide section. In specific, high-quality nutrition services necessitate both process and foundational reforms at the macro, meso, and micro levels.

The paper outlines the challenges and proposes recommendations to improve quality nutrition care and services in the country. These are related to strong leadership, harmonized guidelines and targets, and robust regulatory and quality improvement mechanisms; improved monitoring and evaluation and data use; predictable, adequate, and timely financing; platforms for care; competent health workers and a sound supportive supervision system; adequate supplies and functional equipment; and systems that respond to clients’ health needs and expectations.