Viral MBG TV Set to Launch, Deputy Head of BGN Responds

A social media post announcing the launch of MBG TV, which aims to broadcast in 13 provinces, has gone viral. The National Nutrition Agency (BGN) has responded.

According to the viral post, as seen by detikcom on Wednesday (25/2/2025), the Free Nutritious Food program will expand to a national television network through a channel called MBG TV.

The channel is said to be a means of education related to the Free Nutritious Food program, increasing public awareness of nutrition, and socialising food security policies.

In the same post, the presence of MBG TV was announced by the Deputy Head of the National Nutrition Agency, Major General Lodewyk Pusung. The channel is said to be available through live streaming services and will reach 13 provinces, namely Jakarta, Banten, West Java, Central Java, East Java, North Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, Central Sulawesi, Lampung, South Sumatra, West Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, and Maluku.

The Deputy Head of the National Nutrition Agency for Communication and Investigation, Nanik S Deyang, has spoken out. She claims to have no knowledge of the emergence of MBG TV.

“As Deputy Head of the Communication division, I have no knowledge, and neither does the BGN, that anyone is creating MBG TV,” Nanik told reporters.

She said that the producers of MBG TV should have sought permission from the BGN first.

“MBG TV must ask for permission from me as Deputy Head in the field of Public Communication and Investigation,” she said.

Nanik also said that she had asked the Head of the National Nutrition Agency, Dadan Hindayana, about MBG TV.

“I asked the Head of the Agency, and he also had no knowledge of MBG TV,” she said.

(isa/idn)