51 SPPG Kitchens in Pamekasan Threatened with Closure Due to BGN Policy

The Head of the National Nutrition Agency (BGN), Nanik S Deyang, plans to reorganise the Free Nutritious Meal (MBG) programme by limiting the number of kitchens to a maximum of six units per sub-district. Nanik stated that this policy is part of a consolidation effort, given that more than 27,000 SPPG kitchens are now in operation. “We will sort this out first. For example, in one sub-district, six is enough. That’s it, just six,” she said at the BGN Office in Central Jakarta on Thursday, 4 June.

The BGN Head’s plan poses a threat to SPPG kitchen operators in several regions, including Pamekasan Regency, Madura, East Java, which has 13 sub-districts. The number of currently active SPPG kitchens there reaches 129 units. If the policy is implemented, 51 of the 129 kitchens face closure or will be unable to operate.

Pamekasan BGN Regional Coordinator Heriyanto revealed that no official letter regarding the plan to reorganise the MBG programme by limiting kitchens to a maximum of six per sub-district has yet been issued from the central office. “Regarding the kitchen limitation plan, there has been no official letter from the centre to date,” he confirmed on Friday, 12 June 2026.

Currently, 27,000 MBG kitchens are operating across Indonesia. The BGN will temporarily suspend new MBG kitchen registrations while evaluating the need for SPPG units in each region. One consideration for the moratorium is that the number of SPPG applications and operational units is already deemed sufficient. The majority of SPPG kitchens are located in urban and agglomeration areas, while MBG distribution in disadvantaged, frontier, and outermost (3T) regions remains suboptimal.