Triple Burden Trends among Indonesian Children Under Five
Stunting, Wasting, and Overweight from 2013 to 2024
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https://doi.org/10.62012/a8nds813Keywords:
Child Malnutrition, Stunting, Wasting, Overweight, Triple Burden, Indonesia, SSGI, RiskesdasAbstract
Indonesia has made sustained progress in reducing child malnutrition, yet the coexistence of stunting, wasting, and overweight remains an important concern for child nutrition policy. This study aimed to describe national trends in the triple burden of malnutrition among Indonesian children under five from 2013 to 2024 using secondary data from UNICEF Indonesia's Update Gizi Volume 6, April-June 2025, and related national nutrition sources. A secondary descriptive analysis was conducted using aggregate prevalence values for stunting, wasting, and overweight presented in the UNICEF trend chart, which compiles data from Riskesdas 2013 and 2018 and SSGI 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. The results showed that stunting declined from 37.6% in 2013 to 19.8% in 2024, representing an absolute reduction of 17.8 percentage points. Wasting decreased from 12.1% to 7.4%, although the trend fluctuated after 2021. Overweight declined from 11.8% to 3.4%, showing the largest relative reduction among the three indicators. Despite this progress, stunting remained below but close to 20%, wasting returned to the same level as 2019, and overweight continued to coexist with undernutrition. The findings indicate that Indonesia's child nutrition agenda should continue to address multiple forms of malnutrition simultaneously through integrated interventions involving maternal and child nutrition, complementary feeding, acute malnutrition management, healthy food environments, and continuous surveillance.
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