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Millennium development goals is a fundamental set of principles and guidelines pledged by 191 member states of the united nations to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and gender inequality by the year 2015. So for the member of United States like or not, easy or hard must implement this millennium development goals in 2015 and so do Indonesia.

Truly, I don’t know for other states, but for Indonesia, I think implementing the millennium development goals successful and timely by 2015 is not such easy when we say, write or just pledge it.
Why so pessimistic? Maybe we can say it is a pessimistic statement, but I think this pessimistic statement is based on reality in Indonesia.
But don’t take much time to be pessimistic its wasting energy and wasting time. To be the best or just better we must do a thing as good as possible as a citizen, as a minister, as everything we are.

Combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and gender equality need cooperation of all component of this country, and again, I think make such cooperation like that is not easy.

Why..? Because poverty, hunger disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and gender inequality are problem with wide scope. It’s like ice berg. Millennium development goals not just a political will it need support by all of Indonesian citizen, the clean government, and law supremacy, if not maybe all the millennium development goals just a dream at all.

My vision about this millennium development goal based on my background as a community nutrition student. I think best quality of life is based on health and education. Wealth without health doesn’t mean anything, and health and nutrition have very close relationship.

Few people—whether or not they are nutrition professional—would not dispute the fact that malnutrition constrains people’s ability to fulfill their potential. Hungry and undernourished people have less energy to undertake work, are less able to attend school, and once in school are less to concentrate and learn. Diet related chronic disease take highly experienced individuals out of the work force and take resources away from primary health services. Improve nutritional status will lead to an improved ability to secure rewarding and sustainable livelihoods is a common sense proposition.

From that point of view, we can see that improvement in nutrition can thus serve as a crucial spur to overall economic growth, because contribution of nutrition to economic development and human development is a never end cycle. Economic and demographic events such as globalization, HIV/AIDS, and urbanization have large and far-reaching impacts on human development—such as the capability to be well nourished and healthy, to undertake healthy reproduction, and to be educated and knowledgeable.

According to almost all nutritionist all over the world, nowadays dramatic changes are taking place within the nutrition community. These dramatic changes are also taking place in the world as we enter a new millennium. The ease with resources—people, assets, goods, information—can move within and across national boundaries increased dramatically in 1990s. This globalization poses tremendous opportunities for securing increased resources to reduce malnutrition.

If we look Indonesia nowadays, compare with the past in Soeharto`s regime is very different. Economic crisis since 1997 hasn’t over yet, even worst with moral crisis. Corruption everywhere, and this mental has close interrelation with the descent of economic growth Indonesia today. Megawati`s regime hasn’t do much action to make Indonesian condition better. But as a president of Indonesia, I think she has a good will with her participate to pledge millennium development goals with other member state of the UN to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and gender inequality by the year 2015.

If Indonesia can implement the millennium development goals by the year 2015, I think the economic crisis of Indonesia will over, and implication caused by the economic crisis such as malnutrition, poverty, hunger etc will end soon, and the most important thing is that implementation of millennium development goals will rise Indonesian HDI from 106 in 1999 to 22 by 2015 (I hope).

Why HDI or Human Development Index, because human development expresses it self in human capabilities. In the 1996 human development report UNDP defines the three most important human capabilities as (1) the capability to be well nourished and healthy, (2) the capability for health reproduction, and (3) the capability to be educated and knowledgeable. In a broader sense human development can be seen as enlarging people. In short term HDI express the quality of life.

To construct good thing such as implementing those millennium development goals is a big work. And every big work starts from a little work. Thousand steps start from the first step.

For me, there are three things we must do to help our government in implementing those goals. I think, first we must start to do all the best we can do from our self. We must develop our self to do always our duty first than claim our rights, because human rights express relationships between subjects with claims or rights and object with duty or obligations. Essentially, human rights are the relation ships between claim holders and duty bearers. Bearers have duty to respect, protect, facilitate, and fulfill the rights of claim holder. Claimants have valid claims. Bearers and claimants can be international community national and local governments, NGOs, community, families, households, and parents. Second, we must start form the little thing, and the last start to do it now. Just like Aa Gym say. If we didn’t do anything maybe implementing development goal by 2015 successful and timely just a wish and utopia.