Integrating nutrition-sensitive and climate-smart strategies into RAD-PGs and the RAN-PG

By 2029, the Indonesia government commits to integrating nutrition-sensitive and climate-smart strategies and actions into the Subnational Food and Nutrition Action Plans (RAD-PGs) to ensure access to diverse and nutritious diets through sustainable food systems as key outcomes. This includes strengthening local food production to provide diverse nutrition, including aquatic food, reducing food loss and waste and enhancing large-scale food fortification while restricting marketing of unhealthy food and promoting healthier alternatives, including reducing consumption of ultra-processed food to ensure a resilient and equitable food system aligned with national goals.

As mandated by Law No. 18 of 2012 on Food, the Indonesia government develops a National Food and Nutrition Action Plan (RAN-PG) every five years as a framework to harmonise commitments and actions across national and subnational agencies to address all forms of malnutrition. In 2025, Indonesia will finalise the 2025–2029 RAN-PG, building upon the previous plan, while integrating climate-sensitive nutrition strategies and actions. It aims to increase the availability and affordability of diverse, safe and nutritious foods resilient to climate impacts and strengthen sustainable and climate-resilient utilisation of food and essential nutrition services, specifically for vulnerable groups (women, pregnant mothers, children under 5 years of age, the elderly and communities in food-insecure areas) through multisectoral collaboration. The RAN-PG will be translated into subnational food and nutrition action plans at the provincial level across Indonesia.

Moving forward, the Indonesia government commits to scaling up efforts to provide intensive technical assistance for the integration of at least two of the nutrition-sensitive and climate-smart strategies, including local food, aquatic food, (bio)fortification, or food loss and waste reduction into subnational food and nutrition action plans. This will be prioritised in the 18 provinces that have an established RAD-PG as of 2024, with a specific focus on those at moderate to very high risk of climate impacts and malnutrition. Five of these provinces have already incorporated climate-smart and nutrition-sensitive strategies into their existing RAD-PG. Progress will be monitored annually, to ensure alignment with the 2029 target.