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        "id": 1798427,
        "msgid": "national-nutrition-agency-to-restructure-free-meal-programme-beneficiaries-excluding-wealthy-schools-1781186282",
        "date": "2026-06-11 19:33:01",
        "title": "National Nutrition Agency to Restructure Free Meal Programme Beneficiaries, Excluding Wealthy Schools",
        "author": "",
        "source": "DETIK",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Social Policy",
        "summary": "Indonesia's National Nutrition Agency (BGN) is restructuring its free nutritious meal programme (MBG) to ensure beneficiaries are genuinely in need, following directives from the Coordinating Minister for Food. The overhaul will remove elite schools and affluent recipients from the programme while prioritising underserved regions, particularly disadvantaged, frontier, and outermost (3T) areas. The government is also mandating stricter kitchen hygiene standards with zero tolerance for food safety breaches.",
        "content": "<p>The National Nutrition Agency (BGN) is currently overhauling the\nimplementation of the free nutritious meal programme (MBG), specifically\ntargeting the cluster of beneficiaries. The BGN will restructure the\nprogramme so that elite schools and recipients who are financially\nwell-off will no longer receive MBG. \u201cYes, yes. The idea is that those\nwho are capable, the wealthy, will not receive it again,\u201d said BGN Head\nNanik S Deyang to journalists at the Presidential Palace complex in\nJakarta on Thursday (11\/6\/2026). Nanik did not elaborate further on the\nreport that will be submitted to President Prabowo Subianto. Her meeting\nto report was originally scheduled for today but has been postponed\nuntil tomorrow. \u201cThis hasn\u2019t been discussed yet; it will be discussed\ntomorrow. Not yet, not yet. I heard it\u2019s tomorrow afternoon,\u201d she said.\nPreviously, Coordinating Minister for Food Zulkifli Hasan (Zulhas),\nduring a coordination meeting with the BGN, called for an evaluation of\nthe MBG implementation. One of Zulhas\u2019s main concerns was the\nprogramme\u2019s beneficiaries. Zulhas revealed that many elite schools that\ndo not require the programme are receiving MBG. Conversely, he said,\nthere are still schools needing the programme that have not been\nreached, especially in 3T regions (disadvantaged, frontier, and\noutermost). \u201cAs part of improvement efforts, we need to refocus so that\nthese beneficiaries are precisely targeted. For instance, these well-off\nschools will be addressed directly within this month. The elite schools,\nwell, they really don\u2019t need nutritious meals,\u201d Zulhas said after the\ncoordination meeting at the Coordinating Ministry for Food in Central\nJakarta on Thursday (11\/6\/2026). \u201cThose who need it have not yet\nreceived it, but those who don\u2019t need it are getting it. So, this will\nbe arranged further because we will focus on the very delayed 3T areas,\u201d\nhe continued. Zulhas also requested improvements to kitchen quality\nrelated to cleanliness. He stressed that there must be no more cases of\nfood poisoning. \u201cBecause we have zero tolerance for food safety issues.\nEven one case is unacceptable; there must be no more poisoning.\nTherefore, we will focus on this within this month. Yes, in a month we\nwill review it again,\u201d he stated.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/national-nutrition-agency-to-restructure-free-meal-programme-beneficiaries-excluding-wealthy-schools-1781186282",
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