AGO Reveals Private Sector Link to Dadan in Free Nutritious Meals Case

The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) has revealed the connection between former National Nutrition Agency (BGN) head Dadan Hindayana (DH) and a private party with the initials GHS in the alleged corruption case concerning the management of the Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) programme for 2025-2026. Director of Investigation at the Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes, Syarief Sulaeman Nahdi, stated on Thursday at the AGO building in Jakarta that GHS is a private party requested by Dadan to find partners for the implementation of the MBG programme. “GHS had known DH before 2025. So, they were already acquainted before 2024,” he said. During the process, Dadan unlawfully provided GHS with access to obtain SPPG kitchen sites through a foundation owned by GHS. After GHS’s foundation secured the kitchen sites, it sold them to parties wishing to establish SPPG kitchens. “GHS was given access by DH to communicate with the verification team appointed by DH, enabling GHS to arrange the rollback of SPPG statuses under the auspices of GHS’s foundation,” Syarief disclosed. Following the arrangement of the SPPG sites, GHS unlawfully gave a sum of money in cash, in both foreign currency and rupiah, to Dadan. “The money was not given just once, but periodically, perhaps as needed. So, not just once. As for the amount, we are still calculating it at this moment,” he said. For his actions, GHS has been charged under Article 12 letters a, b, and e of Law Number 31 of 1999 on Corruption Crimes as amended by Law Number 20 of 2001 on Corruption Crimes, in conjunction with Article 20 letter a or c of Law Number 1 of 2023 on the Criminal Code, and Article 606 of Law Number 1 of 2023 on the Criminal Code in conjunction with Article 20 letter a or c of the Criminal Code. GHS is the sixth suspect in this case. Previously, the Junior Attorney General for Special Crimes had named five suspects: former BGN head Dadan Hindayana; former BGN Deputy Head for Organisational Development and Institutional Relations Lodewyk Pusung; former BGN Deputy Head for Nutritional Fulfilment Operations Sony Sonjaya; private party Asep Yusuf Soemantri; and Commissioner of PT Yasa Artha Trimanunggal Andri Mulyono.