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        "msgid": "government-decides-mbg-to-5-days-per-week-for-efficiency-saving-state-rp-20-trillion-1774968693",
        "date": "2026-03-31 20:32:30",
        "title": "Government Decides MBG to 5 Days per Week for Efficiency, Saving State Rp 20 Trillion",
        "author": "",
        "source": "DETIK",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Social Policy",
        "summary": "The Indonesian government has reduced the Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) programme to five days a week to enhance efficiency amid Middle East tensions, projecting savings of Rp 20 trillion in the state budget while maintaining exceptions for remote, underdeveloped areas and regions with high stunting rates. Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto emphasised that the programme will focus on providing fresh meals aligned with school attendance, urging public and business support for broader structural transformations towards a more efficient economy. Additionally, civil servants will implement a one-day weekly work-from-home policy every Friday starting 1 April to promote digital-based governance.",
        "content": "<p>The government is implementing several measures to achieve efficiency\namid the intensifying Middle East conflict. The Free Nutritious Meals\n(MBG) programme is affected by the reduction to five days per week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government is pushing for the optimisation of the MBG programme,\ndirecting it towards the provision of fresh meals for five days a week,\u201d\nsaid Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Airlangga Hartarto, during\nan online press conference on Tuesday (31\/3\/2026).<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Airlangga stated that the distribution of MBG must\nconsider several exceptions, from 3T areas (Lagging, Frontier,\nOutermost) to regions with high stunting rates. Airlangga noted that\nthis policy saves the state budget up to Rp 20 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStill considering exceptions such as for dormitories, 3T areas, and\nareas with high stunting levels. The potential savings from this\nactivity reach Rp 20 trillion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Airlangga added that the various efficiency measures undertaken by\nthe government are part of structural transformation towards an\nefficient economy. He also called on all society to support it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government invites all society and the business world to remain\nproductive and actively participate in and support this efficiency and\nwork culture,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Head of the National Nutrition Agency (BGN) Dadan Hindayana\npreviously responded to the plan for efficiency in the Free Nutritious\nMeals (MBG) programme by reducing the distribution frequency from six\ntimes a week to five times a week. Dadan said that MBG distribution\nwould be adjusted to students\u2019 attendance at school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpecifically for school children, MBG will be distributed if they\nare present at school. If school is five days, they will receive MBG for\nfive days, while if there is a school that operates six days, MBG will\nbe given for six days. Based on the data available, the majority of\nschool durations are five days,\u201d said Dadan when responding to the\nefficiency proposal for the MBG Programme as reported by Antara on\nFriday (27\/3).<\/p>\n<p>One-Day Weekly WFH Policy<\/p>\n<p>As is known, the government has set a work-from-home (WFH) policy for\none day per week. That one day of WFH will apply every Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe implementation of work from home for civil servants (ASN) in\ncentral and regional agencies, carried out for one working day per week,\nnamely every Friday,\u201d said Coordinating Minister for the Economy\nAirlangga Hartarto during a virtual press conference on Tuesday\n(31\/3).<\/p>\n<p>Airlangga said that this one-day-per-week WFH policy only applies to\ncivil servants (ASN). This policy is also to encourage digital-based\nservice governance. This policy will take effect starting 1 April.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/government-decides-mbg-to-5-days-per-week-for-efficiency-saving-state-rp-20-trillion-1774968693",
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