“…Puskesmas Wolo is one of the working areas of the Kolaka District Health Office which has the most infant targets and the highest coverage of nutrition problems compared to other Puskesmas and the prevalence of wasting has increased in the last 3 years, namely in 2018 by 15.2%, then increased to 26.1% in 2019 (Wolo, 2020). The working area of Puskesmas Wolo consists of 14 villages and there are 9 villages that have wasting children, namely Lalonaha village 2 people, Iwoimopuro 3 people, Ulu Wolo 2 people, Lalonggopi 2 people, T.Ponrewaru 4 people, Samaenre 1 person, Lapao Pao 3 people, Muara Lapao-Pao 5 people and Ulurina village as many as 3 people, so that the total number of wasting children in 2020 is 25 people (Wolo, 2020). Based on this, the researcher is interested in conducting research on exclusive breastfeeding on the incidence of wasting in under-five children aged 7-24 months in the working area of Puskesmas Wolo, Kolaka Regency.…”