Jurnal Infortech
Vol. 8 No. 1 (2026): June 2026

Behind the Black Box: Improving Stunting Determinants Analysis Through Explainable Artificial Intelligence

Wawan Nugroho (Universitas Bina Sarana Informatika)
Heribertus Ary Setyadi (Universitas Bina Sarana Informatika)
Supriyanta Supriyanta (Universitas Bina Sarana Informatika)
Galih Setiawan Nurohim (Universitas Bina Sarana Informatika)
Annida Purnamawati (Universitas Bina Sarana Informatika)



Article Info

Publish Date
22 Jun 2026

Abstract

Stunting is a public health problem that has a long-term impact on the quality of human resources. This study aims to analyze the performance of machine learning algorithms and identify the dominant factors of stunting using the Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) approach. The dataset used was 120,999 toddlers with age, height, gender, and nutritional status attributes. The research stages include data pre-processing, normalization, separation of training and testing data (80:20), modeling using C4.5 algorithms, Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Random Forest, and evaluation using accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score. The results showed that Random Forest and C4.5 achieved the best performance with an accuracy of 99.93%, while SVM achieved 98.37%. Interpretive analysis using SHAP revealed that height and age were the most dominant factors in the stunting classification with a contribution of 0.59 and 0.41, respectively, while gender contributed relatively small. These findings show that the integration of multi-algorithmic evaluation and XAI not only results in accurate prediction models, but also transparent and interpretive, thus supporting data-driven decision-making in efforts to accelerate stunting reduction in Indonesia

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Journal Info

Abbrev

infortech

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Engineering

Description

Jurnal Infortech is a journal in the field of Computer and Informatics published by LPPM Bina Sarana Informatika and has an ISSN online version (2715-8160). This journal contains scientific research results on the themes of Computer Science, Informatics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Expert ...