Extracurricular Education to Increase Nutrition Knowledge Among Primary School Children in Indonesia

Increased nutritional knowledge has been shown to increase one's awareness in implementing healthy living behaviors. The school approach of nutrition education through intracurricular curriculum and extracurricular activities will improve the nutrition knowledge of elementary school children. This study aims to compare the knowledge of elementary school students without and with the intervention of the Gerakan Nusantara as extracurricular activities in schools. This research is a descriptive qualitative analysis and statistical analysis. The results showed that Gerakan Nusantara, as an extracurricular activity, was proven to be able to improve the nutrition knowledge of elementary school children. This program supports the existing subject matter in the students' intracurricular curriculum in elementary schools. Increased knowledge with the intervention of the Gerakan Nusantara Program because the program serves the materials along with interesting animated images, healthy feeding practices, outdoor physical activity, and involving all parties related to students, namely the school teacher, peers, and parents.