Jakarta, April 30 -- Indonesia's Health Ministry on Thursday launched a 1,000-day early life consortium to cut maternal and infant deaths and stunting, aiming to improve outcomes from pregnancy to age two.

"We aim to reduce annual maternal deaths from 4,000 to below 400 and infant deaths from 30,000 to under 3,000, while lowering stunting to below 7 percent," Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin said.

The move comes as around 84 million Indonesian children are projected to support the country when it marks its centennial in 2045, underscoring the urgency of strengthening early-life health interventions.

Sadikin said the government will prioritize targeted, data-driven measures, including preventing pregnancy and childbirth complicati...