Contents of the School Nutritious Meal Programme Package Before Ramadan at SMPN 48 Jakarta
Students at SMPN 48 Jakarta received free nutritious meal packages on Friday afternoon, 13 March 2026. The packaged meal distribution represented the final nutritious meal programme (MBG) allocation before students began their Ramadan break, which commences on 16 March 2026.
Wrapped in transparent plastic bags, the nutritious meal packages distributed at SMPN 48 Jakarta comprised eight types of food items. These included packaged milk, three small portions of fried potatoes, roasted peanuts, one bag containing approximately four dates, one orange, and two boiled eggs.
Fitri Setiawati, Deputy Head of School for Facilities and Infrastructure at SMPN 48 Jakarta, stated that the MBG package represented the nutritious meal allocation for two days. She noted that this allocation was actually less than what students were supposed to receive.
According to her account, students were originally supposed to receive a bundled package covering the entire Ramadan holiday period. “But the Nutrition Service Unit (SPPG) said they could only provide for two days, because the supplier was not prepared to provide bundled packages,” she explained when met at the school in South Jakarta on Friday.
Fitri indicated that there remained no certainty regarding the distribution of bundled MBG packages for the Ramadan holiday season at her school. The Nutrition Service Unit serving their school had not yet provided further information on this matter.
At the same time, she raised concerns that if the MBG stock for the Ramadan break were to be distributed the following week, it would be problematic. Starting 16 March, students would no longer attend school, and many children would begin travelling to their parents’ home towns outside the city. “So it seems difficult if we have to distribute the nutritious meal programme the following Monday,” she said.
On 14 February 2026, the Head of the National Nutrition Agency, Dadan Hindayana, assured that the national nutrition fulfilment programme would continue during the 2026 Ramadan break. He stated that the MBG package for the Ramadan holiday must be distributed on the final day of school or at the latest by 17 March 2026, with the Ramadan break estimated to fall between 18-20 March 2026.
The Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education subsequently set the Ramadan holiday to begin earlier, on 16 March. “Distribution will be carried out on the final day of the previous distribution cycle,” he said, according to a press release from the National Nutrition Agency’s Legal and Public Relations Bureau on 14 February 2026.