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Under a new law in Indonesia, companies must make available facilities for nursing mothers to store breast milk expressed during the working day.
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The decree was published on 23 December and marks a startling transforation in the attitudes to mothers' milk.
Recognising that breast milk is regarded as the best food for infants up to six months old, the Indonesian government concluded that any step that could encourage this was a good thing.
And it recognised that in poor families, the mother is most likely to be back at work less than six months after the child is born. Further, breast milk is free - and in time of economic difficulty, any cost saving must be adopted.
And so companies in Indonesia must provide facilities for the discreet expressing of breast milk and for its storage.
A simple and cheap solution to an apparently intractable problem.
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