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        "msgid": "prabowo-guarantees-continuation-of-mbg-programme-until-completion-no-projects-left-unfinished-1777514022",
        "date": "2026-04-30 07:55:40",
        "title": "Prabowo Guarantees Continuation of MBG Programme Until Completion, No Projects Left Unfinished!",
        "author": "",
        "source": "CNBC",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Social Policy",
        "summary": "President Prabowo Subianto has reaffirmed his commitment to fully implementing the Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) programme, ensuring it reaches over 60 million beneficiaries, including vulnerable groups like pregnant women and the elderly, with meals delivered five times a week. He highlighted the programme's extraordinary impact and its role in guaranteeing market absorption for farmers' produce through the Food Security Agency, preventing exploitation by middlemen. This assurance comes amid scepticism from some quarters, positioning MBG as a model that other nations are keen to emulate.",
        "content": "<p>Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - President Prabowo Subianto is committed to\ncompleting the Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) programme in full. He\nguarantees that no MBG programme will be left unfinished. He emphasised\nthis commitment amid widespread pessimism from various parties doubting\nthe programme\u2019s successful implementation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur brothers and sisters have already produced tens of millions of\nMBG, and we will continue until completion. We will address the many\nshortcomings. Many are afraid it will succeed,\u201d said Prabowo during the\ngroundbreaking of 13 strategic downstreaming projects, quoted on\nThursday (30\/4\/2026).<\/p>\n<p>According to the head of state, the MBG programme has an\nextraordinary impact because it reaches more than 60 million\nbeneficiaries, with distribution five times a week. The programme is\nalso enjoyed by vulnerable groups such as pregnant women and the\nelderly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is there a country that can feed more than 60 million people,\nfive times a week, where pregnant women have meals delivered, elderly\nand disabled people have meals delivered. Show me where, which country,\u201d\nstated Prabowo.<\/p>\n<p>Although Prabowo acknowledged that perhaps large countries like China\ncould do it. However, he continued, China started it earlier. It is\nproven that currently, many countries want to learn about the\nimplementation of MBG in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to MBG, said Prabowo, farmers now have a guarantee that their\nharvest will be purchased by the Food Security Agency. There will no\nlonger be stories of farmers forced to sell their produce to middlemen\nfor fear it won\u2019t sell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have already felt the benefits. Farmers whose harvests were not\nbought before. As soon as they harvest mangoes, the mangoes are not\ntaken, they rot in the orchard, the harvest is not absorbed. Middlemen\ncome and slash prices,\u201d explained Prabowo.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/prabowo-guarantees-continuation-of-mbg-programme-until-completion-no-projects-left-unfinished-1777514022",
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