that they can meet their child's food needs, especially 
nutritional  needs.  The  level  of  education  also 
determines whether or not easy to absorb and receive 
information. A high level of education will increase 
the  knowledge  of  mothers  about  good  nutrition  for 
their children so that mothers can provide nutritious 
food. 
The results of this study where the attendance of 
children who are not active but the nutritional status 
is less due to the age of a child under five where age 
can  affect  the  level  of  attendance  to  the  posyandu. 
This can be seen from mother who do not bring their 
children to the posyandu that have a child aged two 
years and older, actually, it is important to be active 
in attendance the posyandu to monitor the growth and 
development of their child so that mothers will find 
out  whether  their  children  are  experiencing  growth 
disorders  or  not.  In  addition,  mothers  with  low 
education  and  knowledge  indirectly  influence  the 
presence of children to the posyandu. This is in line 
with research conducted by Lanoh et al., (2015) the 
p-value  0.012  (p<0.05), so  it  is  concluded  that  is  a 
relationship  between  the  use  of  posyandu  with 
nutritional status of children under five in the work 
area Puskesmas Ranotana Weru. 
Posyandu has various types of services provided 
including  weight  weighing,  immunization, 
supplementary  feeding,  nutrition  counseling,  and 
health. Therefore, the effort mothers of a child under 
five to bring children into the posyandu is a positive 
activity  so  that  awareness  bring  children  to  health 
services can prevent the occurrence of nutrition and 
health problems for child under five. The existence of 
weighing at Posyandu allows mothers to monitor the 
growth and development of child under five, which 
can  be  seen  from  the  results  of  each  weight 
measurement recorded in the Card Towards Health or 
Mothers and Child Health Book, from these results it 
will be seen whether the child has a growth disorder 
or  not.  If  there  is  growth  disturbance  then  efforts 
should be made in the form of counseling, 
supplementary feeding,  nutritional supplementation, 
and  referral  to  prevent  worsening  nutritional 
conditions in the community. Growth disorders in this 
case such as twice coming to the posyandu weight not 
rising  or  below  the  red  line  can  be  referred  to  the 
health  center so that it  can be  overcome  earlier and 
already  handled  before  the  occurrence  of 
malnutrition.  The  level  of  attendance  at  an  active 
posyandu  has  a  major  influence  on  monitoring 
nutritional status and mothers of children under five 
who come to posyandu will get the latest information 
about  health  that  is  useful  in  determining  healthy 
lifestyles every day (Destiadi et al, 2015). 
5  CONCLUSIONS  
The characteristics of mothers and the attendance of 
children  under  five  to  the  posyandu  are  indirect 
factors  that  affect  the  nutritional  status.  Therefore, 
children under five need to active in attending to the 
posyandu.  
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
Thank  you  to  the  Head  of  the  Nutrition  Study 
Program  at  Esa  Unggul  University,  Supervising 
Lecturers, Parents, Puskesmas Kebagusan, Posyandu 
Cadres  and  Mothers  of  Child  Under  Five  who  has 
been willing to respondents in this study. 
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