Guntari Prasetya, S.Gz., M.Sc Pengarang

One of the efforts in the acceleration of stunting reduction program conducted by the Indonesian government is to carry out integrated stunting reduction intervention. One of the main indicator targets is the prevalence of anemia among pregnant women and adolescent girls, and the intervention given is in the form of iron and folic acid (IFA) supplement for pregnant women and adolescent girls (1). The WIFA (Weekly Iron-Folic Acid) supplementation program for adolescent school girls is mainly allocated in regencies where they are found as locusts of stunting. Adolescence presents a second window of opportunity for establishing healthy lifelong nutrition. Adolescents are vulnerable to undernutrition because their rapid growth raises their nutritional needs. In 2018, 32% of Indonesian adolescents in Indonesia suffered from anemia (2). Iron-folic acid (IFA) supplementation is an intervention given to pregnant women and adolescent girls to reduce the prevalence of anemia among pregnant women and adolescent girls. It is one of the efforts to accelerate the alleviation of stunting in Indonesia as an integrated stunting reduction intervention. Increasing stunting awareness among school-going adolescents through optimization of the implementation of WIFA supplementation is the potential way to induce behavioral change in improving lifelong nutrition and health to overcome stunting.