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management, legislation, research, technology, social marketing, and monitoring- evaluation.
4.2 Objective
The program is aimed at strengthening the existing program of wheat flour fortification to reduce anemia prevalence of children and pregnant women to be 30 of
population as stated in Food and Nutrition Action Plan- 2005.
4.3 Program
Programs that considered can be strengthened on wheat flour fortification program are legislation and regulation; research; technology, training and
commercialization; quality assurance; social marketing; and monitoring and evaluation.
4.3.1 Industrial Implementation
In 1998, Indonesian government secured a grant of US 850,000 from USAID through UNICEF to purchase 340 MT of iron premix. Besides, in August
2001, Indonesia government secured a donation again of 232.44 MT premix from CIDA through UNICEF for all flour mills in Indonesia. The donation could be used
only for two years. To continue in the following years, and to be competitive in the AFTA Asian
Free Trade Area, the fortificants for the flour mills-industries need to be subsidized for about three years by government. Another reason is the law enforcement for bending
the imported-non fortified wheat flour is still not adequate, that makes the imported non- fortified wheat flour available and cheaper than domestic one in several areas in
Indonesia, and the rest of seven years program, the fortificants must be procured by industries sector themselves. The activities of this program include: fortificant subsidy
and fortificant procurement. The quality assurance QA is a must for each industry include mandatory
fortification of wheat flour. The QA will protect consumers and producers from unsafe and low quality product; and to ensure that the manufacture follow the technical
specification.
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4.3.2 Regulation, Food Control and Management
Implementation of wheat flour fortification is regulated by three government regulations, i.e. 632MENKESSKVI1998 about “Wheat flour fortification”, June 16th,
1998, 153MPPKep52001 jo 323MPPKep112001 about mandatory Flour Standard SNI on all wheat flour traded in Indonesia, 03DIRJEN-IKAHSKII2002 about
standard operating procedure of mandatory SNI. The existed regulations are still weak and need to be strengthened to control implementation of wheat flour fortification and
avoid violation of non-fortified wheat flour production. To be well understood and widely adopted, the approved legislation and
regulation should be advocated and socialized among relevant institutions, industries sectors, consumer organization, academia and consumer in general.
4.3.3 Nutrition Monitoring
