National Nutrition Body Mandates SPPG to Display Price and Nutritional Labels on Every Free Nutrition Meal Menu

Jakarta – The National Nutrition Body (BGN) has mandated all Nutrition Service Provider Units (SPPG) to display price and nutritional content labels on every Free Nutritious Meal (MBG) menu to enhance transparency of information to the public.

“Our directive to all SPPG requires them to implement nutritional content and price labelling on every food item distributed,” said BGN Deputy Head Sony Sonjaya during the MBG Talks event in Jakarta on Friday.

This measure is expected to promote transparency and accountability among food supplier partners whilst preventing practices that compromise food quality standards.

With open price disclosure, every ingredient component used must be documented according to actual market prices. Operational costs cannot be added to ingredient prices, as operational support averaging IDR 3,000 per portion has already been allocated separately.

Therefore, if attempts are made to reduce ingredient quality whilst maintaining stated prices, Sony noted that such practices would be easily detected.

This transparency is expected to foster a sense of responsibility and social pressure on partners to maintain ingredient quality, ensuring that food quality received by the public remains protected and continues to improve.

When asked by journalists whether sanctions would be imposed on SPPG not displaying price labels, Sony stated that this policy would be implemented gradually.

“Of course gradually. I only issued this directive three days ago. This is about improving quality. So at the very least, for those who might intend to cheat by reducing quality, the public will then monitor them. Egg prices, banana prices—these must be listed and labelled,” Sony said.

On the same occasion, the Indonesian Nutritious Food Business Association (Gapembi) refuted accusations that SPPG partners receive various government favours or engage in harmful practices.

Gapembi General Chairman Alven Stony explained that investment in SPPG kitchen construction and infrastructure comes from partners, not government funding. The state only provides incentives, whilst business risks remain the partners’ responsibility.

Therefore, he stated, partners themselves actually desire zero accidents to ensure smooth operations and protect their invested capital.