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View all search resultsGovt calls for breast-feeding in workplaces
JAKARTA: Given the rising number of female employees in their reproductive years, the health ministry has urged employers to accommodate breast-feeding for mothers in workplaces, to ensure optimal growth and development for babies
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AKARTA: Given the rising number of female employees in their reproductive years, the health ministry has urged employers to accommodate breast-feeding for mothers in workplaces, to ensure optimal growth and development for babies.
“Sufficient attention is needed so that the status of working mothers does not become an excuse for stopping breast-feeding,” the ministry’s nutrition education and mother and child health director Slamet Riyadi Yuwono said on Tuesday as quoted by kompas.com.
Slamet said companies could provide breast-feeding time during work hours, special breast-feeding areas for mothers and their babies and facilities to pump and store breast milk in the workplace.
According to the ministry, of the 40.74 million female workers in Indonesia, around 25 million are in their reproductive years or a period when they experience pregnancy, labor and breast-feeding.
