State Secretariat Minister targets one-month completion for free meal programme repairs

Jakarta - State Secretariat Minister Prasetyo Hadi has stated that the target for improving the governance of the Free Nutritious Meal Programme (MBG) will be completed within one month. “Our initial target is that this must be finished within one month, but of course there are dynamics, so the first thing we emphasised is that what is already running must continue running without any disruption. We will look at everything regarding the MBG repairs later, not just the motorbike issue, but other aspects as well,” he said at the Coordinating Ministry for Food Office in Jakarta on Thursday. Prasetyo asserted that one direction of the governance improvement relates to the closure of Nutritional Fulfilment Service Units (SPPG) that do not comply with standard operating procedures (SOP) or where there is an excess of MBG kitchens within a single region. He stressed that the establishment of all SPPGs must comply with the SOP. The affiliation of an SPPG owner with a particular political party also cannot be linked to the governance of the MBG, as everyone has the right to own an SPPG as long as it is operated according to established standards.