BGN Emphasises No Service, No Pay Principle; SPPG Incentive Can Be Immediately Halted

Director of Risk Management for Nutrition Fulfilment at the National Nutrition Agency (BGN), Rufriyanto Maulana Yusuf, stated that the incentive scheme in the Free Nutritious Meals Programme (MBG) not only provides financial protection for partners in the Nutrition Fulfilment Service Units (SPPG), but is also accompanied by strict control mechanisms. He noted that the system is equipped with strong disciplinary instruments through the ‘no service, no pay’ principle. “The operational logic of this disciplinary mechanism is based on the highest supremacy of the Nutrition Fulfilment Law, namely no service, no payment,” he said in Jakarta on Thursday (2/4). This means that the Rp6 million daily incentive can be immediately halted if the facility does not meet operational standards or is declared unfit for use. “The partners’ right to the Rp6 million incentive will be instantly forfeited if the SPPG facility is classified as operationally failed or unavailable for various reasons,” Rufriyanto emphasised. According to him, this mechanism serves as a punitive control tool to compel partners to consistently maintain optimal service quality and sanitation. “Quality defect parameters are applied strictly. If on a given day the SPPG water filter is detected with E. coli, the wastewater flow is clogged flooding residential areas, the chiller machine fails causing meat to spoil, or it fails to obtain the Hygiene Sanitation Fitness Certificate (SLHS) from the Ministry of Health, legally that facility is declared to have unmet standby readiness, and on that day, the Rp6 million incentive is immediately suspended,” Rufriyanto explained. Rufriyanto added that this provision encourages partners to diligently maintain facility quality every day, as all operational risks lie with the partners. Thus, food safety and environmental hygiene standards in the MBG Programme can be continuously upheld. Furthermore, he assessed that this policy is part of the ongoing refinement of public governance transformation. Although it still requires adjustments in various operational aspects, he affirmed that the SPPG partnership scheme holds significant strategic value. “We need to realise that every major transformation in public governance is always a continuous refinement process. The MBG Programme through the SPPG partnership scheme may still require adjustments in various operational aspects, but denying its strategic value based on narrow prejudice would be an intellectual loss,” he stated. He invited the public to view this policy objectively as an effort to shift capital expenditure burdens into long-term investments for the quality of life of future generations. “By examining this policy intelligently and beyond mere surface rhetoric, we will see that this instrument is not about one-sided gains, but about patriotic mutual cooperation to realise an independent and competitive national sovereignty,” he concluded.