BGN: MBG Distribution Vehicles Are Not an Operational Cost Component

Jakarta (ANTARA) – The National Nutrition Agency (BGN) has stressed that food-distribution vehicles for the Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) programme are not included in the operational cost component, capped at Rp3,000 per beneficiary.

BGN spokesperson Tysa Novenny said in a statement in Jakarta on Saturday that the policy was not new, but an adjustment to restore the provisions in force when the MBG programme was first launched.

“Removing vehicle costs from the operational allowance of Rp3,000 per beneficiary per day is not new. We are restoring the policy to what it was when the MBG programme was first launched,” Tysa said.

The policy reinstates the programme’s original provisions, under which distribution vehicles were classified as equipment that Nutrition Fulfilment Service Units (SPPGs) are required to provide.

Tysa explained that distribution vehicles are part of the equipment or facilities that SPPGs must have. They are on the same footing as other facilities and equipment, such as SPPG buildings, cooking equipment and dining utensils needed to support MBG services.

The original rules on operational cost components were set out in Deputy for Provision and Distribution Decisions No. 2 of 2024 and No. 1 of 2025.

Neither decision listed vehicles as part of SPPG operational costs.

Tysa acknowledged that a subsequent policy, BGN Head Decision No. 63 of 2025, included vehicle rental costs as an operational cost component.

However, after conducting a more detailed review, BGN concluded that vehicles were more appropriately treated as equipment that SPPGs must provide from the start of their operations.

“After looking into this more thoroughly, vehicles should not be included in operational costs, because SPPGs are required to provide the equipment used to deliver meals from the time they begin operating,” she said.