After Turmoil, Attorney General's Office Accelerates MBG Case Again
The Attorney General’s Office (Kejagung) has resumed investigating corruption in the implementation of the Free Nutritious Meal (MBG) programme by the National Nutrition Agency (BGN). On Tuesday (11/8/2026), a team of investigators from the Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) examined 12 individuals in connection with the case.
Head of the Attorney General’s Office Legal Information Centre, Anang Supriatna, stated that the dozen individuals examined included senior officials and employees of BGN, as well as parties from the foundation that established the Nutrition Fulfilment Service Unit (SPPG).
The 12 individuals examined included O, a support staff member for the acting commitment-making official for tablet procurement at BGN. RHG, Z, and GDF were examined as BGN employees. Investigators also examined RRNWP, the secretary to the head of BGN. From external parties, investigators examined WH from the TBCS Foundation and RE, a finance staff member from PT GSN. YCS was also examined, though their affiliation was not specified. Investigators further examined parties from PT KSK and PT BPK, without disclosing the names of those examined. AR, a director of PT EC, and DRP, the head of SPPG at SPB Foundation, were also questioned. “The investigative team actually summoned 22 people to be examined as witnesses. Of those, 12 individuals complied with the summons,” Anang said.
Anang conveyed that the examinations were conducted at Jampidsus to continue the corruption investigation into the MBG programme at BGN. The case has already seen seven individuals named as suspects and detained.
However, the investigation had previously stalled due to a crisis within the Kejagung’s main building. This situation arose after the National Police named Jampidsus Febrie Adriansyah, who had been leading the MBG corruption investigation from the start, as a suspect in a corruption and money laundering case. Due to his suspect status, Febrie resigned as Jampidsus. During his tenure, Febrie had named three BGN leaders as suspects, including Dadan Hindayana for his role as head of BGN.
Jampidsus also named two retired military officers, three-star general Lodewijk Pusung and two-star general Sony Sonjaya, as suspects for their roles as deputy heads of BGN. Asep Yusuf Somantri, a confidant of Sony, was named the fourth suspect. Subsequently, Febrie named private sector individuals Andrew Mulyono, a commissioner of PT Yasa Artha Trimanunggal, and Glor Harimas Sihombing, chairman of the Indonesia Food Security Review Foundation, as suspects. Lastly, Jampidsus investigators named an active police Brigadier General, Lalu Muhammad Iwan, as a suspect for his role as secretary of the promotion and cooperation deputyship at BGN.
Following this series of suspect designations, a joint police investigative team from Polda Metro Jaya and the National Police’s Corruption Eradication Corps named Febrie as a corruption and money laundering suspect. Before his resignation and subsequent detention, Febrie had stated that the investigation team was holding 47 names, provided by suspect Sony Sonjaya, who were allegedly involved in various procurement scandals at BGN.
The investigation into the MBG corruption at BGN initially uncovered four clusters of cases. The primary cluster concerns the buying and selling of SPPG points, which are the final link in the distribution of MBG benefits to schools across Indonesia. Other clusters include the mark-up of procurement for 21,000 electric motorcycles for SPPG needs, valued at Rp 1.2 trillion, and the mark-up of procurement for 54,000 75-inch televisions and 32,000 pairs of shoes. In further investigations, the team is also probing another cluster involving the procurement of 5,000 fingerprint recording devices and CCTV units, which is suspected of causing Rp 300 billion in state losses.
As the case progresses, several suspects, including Sony Sonjaya, have applied to become justice collaborators and sought protection from the Witness and Victim Protection Agency. However, the request was rejected by both Jampidsus investigators and the agency. Meanwhile, suspect Lodewijk Pusung filed a pretrial motion, but the sole judge rejected the challenge to the validity of his suspect status. During the pretrial hearing, prosecutors revealed that the temporary calculation of state financial losses from the series of corruption at BGN reached Rp 10.5 trillion per year since 2025.