Yesterday: MBG Focuses on 3T-3B, and Joint Decree on Women-Child Protection

The National Nutrition Agency (BGN) is refocusing the Free Nutritious Meal Programme (MBG) on underdeveloped, frontier, and outermost (3T) regions, as well as pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, and toddlers (3B), following a directive from President Prabowo Subianto. BGN Head Nanik Sudaryati Deyang stated that nutrition interventions are most effective from the first month of pregnancy up to the age of nine or primary school, and this is the target they are now pursuing.

Governance improvements for the 2026 MBG programme will begin with optimising budget efficiency. Nanik noted that despite the budget now standing at Rp268 trillion, the agency hopes to reduce it further without compromising quality. As part of this efficiency drive, the BGN will impose a moratorium on the construction of new Nutritional Service Fulfilment Units (SPPG). The agency will focus on a refocusing of beneficiaries, a halt to new kitchen construction, and improving existing operational kitchens to meet quality standards.

Deputy Chairman of Commission IX of the House of Representatives, Charles Honoris, has urged the newly appointed BGN Head, who assumed the role on 2 June 2026, to concentrate on fixing the MBG’s governance, which he described as persistently poor. Separately, the government signed a Joint Decree (SKB) on a Pilot Programme for Integrated Services for Women and Children in DKI Jakarta Province. Minister of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection Arifah Fauzi stated that the signing reinforces a commitment to delivering a more effective, integrated, and equitable protection system for women and children.