Kotabaru, South Kalimantan (ANTARA) - The Tanah Bumbu National Foods and Drug Supervisory Agency (BPOM) in South Kalimantan held Information and Education Communication (KIE), an activity to disseminate information and knowledge about safe, beneficial, and quality drugs and food to the public, in Kotabaru.
KIE is held to make the public smart and critical consumers and be able to choose trusted products and understand how to counter hoax information.
"We are conducting this activity in the form of Public Consultation Forum (FKP)," said Head of Tanah Bumbu Food and Drug Monitoring Center Difa Ananda at the hall of the Regional Development Planning, Research and Innovation Agency (BAPPERIDA), Sebelimbingan Office complex, Kotabaru, Monday (September 22, 2025).
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The forum was held, he said, as a form of openness and public participation in efforts to improve public services.
It is also to follow up the Minister of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Regulation No. 16 of 2017 concerning Guideline for Implementation for Public Consultation Forum (FKP) within Public Service Implementation Units.
"The point is how our services have been so far? Is there any feedback from service recipients? If there are some lacking, this is the right forum to convey it," he said.
Difa said that service users have identified several points that warrant improvement, and his office is committed to making improvements to the quality of public services.
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He said that Kotabaru has many stakeholders, including the local government, who are committed and ready to implement this program.
"We want Kotabaru to become a food-safe city in the future," he said.
Kotabaru is on the Tanah Bumbu Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) priority list for the Kotabaru Food Safety program, with the hope that all business owners will register with BPOM.
"We hope all requirements can be met immediately so we can be assessed. The key is to follow the existing systems and regulations to ensure food sources are registered with BPOM and safe," he said.
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