Act of the Republic of Indonesia No. 36 of 2009 on Health.

This Act, consisting of 205 articles divided into 22 Chapters (containing the elucidation appended to the text), establishes Health development requirements which should be carried out following the basic principles of humanity, balance, utility, protection, respect to the rights and responsibility, justice, gender and non-discriminating and religious norms. The objectives of health development is to increase awareness, willingness and ability to a healthy life for every individual as an investment for development of human resource productive both socially and economically. The Act is divided as follows: General Provisions; Basic Principle and Objectives; Rights and Responsibilities; Responsibility of the Government; Health Resources and Effort; Health of Mother, Infant, Child, Teenager, Geriatric and the Handicapped; Nutrition; Mental Health; Infectious and Non-Infectious Diseases; Environmental Health; Occupational Health; Health Management; Health Information; Health Funding; Public Participation; Health Deliberation Body; Guidance and Monitoring; Investigation; Criminal Provisions; Transitional and Closing Provisions.
Chapter eight establishes basic requirements for National Nutrition and Food security. Article 141 specifies that efforts to improve community nutrition shall be aimed at increasing nutrition quality at individual and community level. Increase of nutrition quality as referred to in subsection (1) shall be done through: improvement of food consumption pattern in accordance with balanced nutrition; improvement of nutrition awareness behaviour, physical activities and health; increase access and nutrition service quality in accordance with the advancement of science and technology; and increase of food and nutrition alert system, etc. The effort to improve health shall be done through the whole cycle of life since in the womb until old age with the priority on vulnerable groups, such as: infant/child; female teenager; and pregnant and nursing mother.