<![CDATA[Indonesia's national stunting prevalence has declined in recent years, from 24.4 percent in 2021 to 21.6 percent in 2022 and 19.8 percent in 2024; however, it exceeds the revised 2025 target of 18.8 percent, indicating a gap between national policy design and sub-national execution.This study analyzes the quality of program planning for stunting reduction acceleration at the sub-district level of government and identifies the factors that support and hinder that quality. A qualitative descriptive approach with a single case study design was applied, using policy document analysis and literature review as the main techniques, with Bryson's (2018) strategic planning theory as the analytical framework comprising four indicators: legal mandate consistency, stakeholder participation, baseline data completeness, and vertical document synchronization. The primary document obtained–an institutional decree issued in April 2022, citing twenty-one legal bases and establishing more than twenty positions across twelve institutions organized into a steering team, an executive chair, three deputy chairs, a secretary, and three coordination divisions, with monthly coordination meetings and biannual reporting to the district level–shows that two of the four indicators (legal mandate consistency and institutional participation) are substantively fulfilled, one (vertical synchronization) has measurably improved, while one (baseline data completeness) remains only partially met because ward-level data are not publicly accessible. These findings indicate that institutional completeness does not automatically translate into substantive planning quality. This study contributes a document-based method for using institutional decrees as verifiable primary data in sub-national planning research and offers an empirically grounded distinction between administrative compliance and substantive planning quality that is transferable to similar sub-national stunting governance contexts.]]>
