BGN: Registration has closed; beware of buy-and-sell offers for SPPG points

The National Nutrition Agency (BGN) has reaffirmed that registration as a partner of the Free Nutritious Meals Programme (MBG) has closed and urged the public to beware of promises to buy and sell SPPG service points by individuals demanding payments. ‘The system is now closed; therefore beware of people who claim you can still sign up because we can drop you from the system,’ said BGN Vice-Chairman Sony Sanjaya in a podcast in Jakarta on Friday. He urged the public who receive such promises to report them to BGN so they can be acted on promptly. ‘Report the person who is asking for money. When I have obtained evidence and supporting documents showing that these SPPG points are the product of sale, I will drop them; to those demanding money, please account for yourselves,’ he said. He emphasised that for every point removed, it will automatically not be verified and cancelled by BGN, so prospective partners will be blocked from the mitra.bgn.go.id system. BGN will also take firm action against those using a tactic of pretending to be duped while building kitchens to serve the MBG Programme. ‘There is a modus operandi of first building, then pretending to be duped to ensure verification, but there are also those who are genuinely duped: for example yesterday someone came to me saying, ’Sir, I was duped, my kitchen is complete, but I wasn’t entered into the system.’ I asked who the scammer was; if one exists, report them; I want to know to distinguish the modus operandi from the genuine,’ he explained. ‘If he won’t answer, or says, ’Yes, indeed, Sir,’ that is clearly a modus, but if someone was truly duped, the police have now received the report; the culprit will soon be identified, because the loss for at least one person is Rp100 million,’ he said. Sanjaya stressed that BGN has now closed SPPG registrations because the MBG service quota has been reached. To date, more than 24,000 SPPG sites have been established across Indonesia.