Attorney General's Office Reveals Dadan and Associates Collaborated to Profit from the Free Nutrition Program and Inflate Goods Prices
The Attorney General’s Office (Kejagung) continues to investigate the alleged corruption case related to the management of the Free Nutrition Program (MBG) at the National Nutrition Agency (BGN) for 2025-2026. Kejagung stated that the suspects allegedly worked together to carry out their actions.
The Acting Head of the Legal Information Center (Kapuspenkum) of the Attorney General’s Office, Mohammad Jeffry, revealed that the three suspects in this case did not act independently. The three suspects, former Head of BGN, Dadan Hindayana, and two former Deputy Heads of BGN, Sony Sonjaya and Lodewyk Pusung, are suspected of coordinating in the illegal practices related to the SPPG (Nutrition Fulfillment Unit) project.
“They worked together, the three of them,” said Jeffry to reporters, Thursday (June 4, 2026).
Jeffry explained that in carrying out the alleged corruption, the suspects already knew each other. However, no further details were given regarding the roles and coordination among them.
“The point is, they all knew,” he added.
Jeffry stated that the scope of the alleged corruption is not limited to the procurement process. There are indications of practices related to the determination of SPPG locations or ‘kitchen locations’.
“Yesterday, it was mentioned that in addition to being related to the procurement of goods, it is also related to the SPPG locations. Those are the ‘kitchen locations’,” Jeffry concluded.
Kejagung has named Dadan Hindayana, Sony Sonjaya, and Lodewyk Pusung as suspects. The three are suspected of intervening in the verification process of BGN partner portals so that foundations owned by them would still be approved even though they did not meet the requirements.
“In fact, the foundations designated as SPPG (Nutrition Fulfillment Unit) partners are foundations used as a means for crime and are affiliated with officials or employees of BGN who do not meet the requirements to become SPPG partners. However, they were still appointed by manipulating the verification on the BGN partner portal with the attention of the suspects,” said the Director of Investigation at the Deputy Attorney General for Special Crimes (Jampidsus) of the Attorney General’s Office, Syarief Sulaeman Nahdi, in a press conference at the Attorney General’s Office, Wednesday (June 3).
Not only intervening, the three are also suspected of being affiliated with a number of SPPGs. From the affiliation of the three suspects, a number of SPPG foundations received billions of rupiah each day.
“These foundations receive billions of rupiah in incentives every day,” said Syarief.
“These foundations are affiliated, including owned by Mr. DH, Mr. SS, and Mr. LP,” he added.
Kejagung also revealed that Dadan and his associates intervened with the commitment-making official or PPK. This intervention resulted in inflated prices for goods and services during the procurement process.
“There was a markup in the procurement price,” he added.