REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, NUSA DUA - Indonesia and 38 other countries received Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) award, handed by Director General of FAO, Jose Graziano da Silva on Tuesday. 

FAO considers Indonesia as a successful country in reducing proportion of hunger from 19.9 percent in 1990-1992, to 8.6 percent in 2010-2012. This achievement exceeds the Millenium Development Goals or MDG's target which equals to 9.9 percent.

"Indonesian government will continue its commitment to increase efforts to achieve a conducive environment towards poverty and hunger alleviation," Coordinating Minister of Economy, Hatta Rajasa said on Tuesday.

One of MDG's target is the eradication of hunger by reducing the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by half from 1990 to 2015. Currently, Indonesia has managed to reduce 37 million people from hunger in 1990 to 21 million in 2012 or reaches 43.8 percent.

Agricultural analyst, Khudori, saw the award was a bit skeptical. He acclaimed, the decline in absolute poverty, from 37 million to 21 million people by 2012 was an achievement. However, the number is still an absolute poverty number.

"It was just hunger by naked eye, or absolute starvation. However, the invisible hunger or hunger due to lack of energy and protein substances is relatively large. That is government's duty in the future," Khudori said. 

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