BGN: Certification Completeness as a Basis for Determining MBG Kitchen Gradation
The National Nutrition Agency (BGN) has formed a special unit tasked with monitoring the implementation of certification across all public kitchens for the free nutritious meal programme (MBG). BGN Head Dadan Hindayana stated that this policy is part of President Prabowo Subianto’s directive to improve the quality of implementation and services in Nutrition Fulfilment Service Units (SPPG).
He explained that the initial focus of the special unit’s oversight will be on the completeness of three main certifications that each MBG kitchen must possess. These are the Hygiene and Sanitation Compliance Certificate, the Halal Certificate, and the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point Certificate.
“Certification completeness will serve as the basis for determining the classification or gradation of SPPG,” Dadan said in his statement, quoted on Tuesday, 24 March 2026.
He assessed that these three certifications form the primary foundation, particularly in ensuring food safety, cleanliness, and quality. If the three main certifications are fulfilled, SPPG is obliged to enhance other certifications related to human resource quality.
Dadan elaborated that the subsequent stage certifications will cover the quality of cooks, food handlers, and environmental analysis in each MBG kitchen. He hopes this system can create measurable quality standards and drive sustainable improvements in MBG service quality.
President Prabowo Subianto has instructed BGN to enhance nutritional service quality in the ongoing MBG project. Dadan said the head of state has requested that inadequate SPPG be addressed and evaluated.
“Inadequate SPPG should be temporarily closed and quality improvements carried out immediately,” Dadan quoted the president’s directive.
BGN has imposed sanctions on 1,251 SPPG across Indonesia for failing to meet the programme’s implementation standards. Of the total sanctioned MBG kitchens, 1,030 SPPG were suspended, 210 received a first-stage warning letter (SP-1), and 11 others are at the SP-2 stage.
Based on BGN data, Region II (Java) has the highest number of sanctions, with 674 SPPG. This is followed by Region I (Sumatra) with 446 SPPG, and Region III (Central and Eastern Indonesia) with 131 SPPG.
The imposition of sanctions on thousands of MBG kitchens followed BGN’s discovery of serious violations in SPPG, ranging from infrastructure that does not meet standards, the absence of Wastewater Treatment Installation (IPAL), to the lack of registration for the Hygiene and Sanitation Compliance Certificate.