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Tri Tito Karnavian urges faster registration of community health posts

From CNN Indonesia · () Indonesian

Translated from Indonesian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Tri Tito Karnavian urged local authorities to accelerate Posyandu registration as a foundation for stronger village-level services.
  • Posyandu centers have expanded beyond maternal and child health to support six areas covered by minimum service standards.
  • She called for name-and-address data, village participation and adequate budgets to ensure services meet residents’ needs.

Tri Tito Karnavian, head of Indonesia’s Posyandu supervisory team, urged faster registration of community health posts as a first step toward strengthening public services down to the village level.

Speaking in Ternate, North Maluku, she said registration would bring greater order to the existence and management of Posyandu centers and help them provide services suited to community needs.

Posyandu is actually an institution that is already quite well known. In the past, Posyandu served pregnant women, children, infants and others. But today, Posyandu has a vision that is much broader in serving the community.

· Tri Tito KarnavianShe described how Posyandu’s role has expanded beyond maternal and child health.

Posyandu was once mainly associated with services for pregnant women, children and infants. Tri said its role has now expanded into a forum for community participation across six areas covered by minimum service standards. That broader mandate requires better management and more complete records.

Data collection is usually expressed in numbers. For example, the stunting rate in this area is a certain figure, and the number of people living in poverty is another. But to reach people by name and address, residents must truly be connected to services.

· Tri Tito KarnavianShe called for household-level data linked to actual service delivery.

Tri said development data should show more than aggregate figures for issues such as stunting and poverty. Services need to connect directly with residents through information organized by name and address. Village governments should help identify local needs through village deliberations and provide suitable budget support.

She also asked village heads to pay closer attention to Posyandu operations. Because the centers are close to residents, she said, they can help government identify and respond to people’s needs more directly. “These concepts must produce real services in line with the expectations of the community,” Tri said, adding that registration should help Posyandu operate properly.

These concepts must produce real services in line with the expectations of the community. We hope that registration as a first step can make Posyandu take shape and operate well.

· Tri Tito KarnavianShe said registration should lead to practical improvements rather than remain an administrative exercise.
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Originally published by CNN Indonesia in Indonesian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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