| Sumario: | This article focuses on breastfeeding support and protection policies during natural disasters and climate-related emergencies in Indonesia. It responds to a letter that highlights the need to translate national mandates into actionable local practices within Indonesia’s decentralized health system, emphasizing culturally responsive and community-based interventions. The authors underscore the relevance of UNICEF’s new technical guidance on wet nursing in emergencies, which offers practical recommendations for supporting this practice where maternal breastfeeding is not possible, particularly given Indonesia’s unregulated donor milk banking and informal milk sharing. The article notes that despite Indonesia’s formal commitments to infant and young child feeding in emergencies (IYCF-E) through World Health Assembly resolutions, local policies remain insufficiently comprehensive and resourced, calling for evidence-informed, context-specific implementation strategies.
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