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Free Nutritious Meals programme
Indonesia's Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) programme run by the National Nutrition Agency: its budget, delivery, policy debate and claims made about it.
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- Fact check: the pledge to feed 82.9 million by April 2026 was missed, then dropped
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Free meals and food poisoning: what Indonesia's official counts showAnalysis · 19:40 UTC
Fake quotes, AI photos and old videos: Indonesia's political hoaxes of 2026Fact Check · 17:30 UTC
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- Indonesia’s free meals programme plagued by alleged corruption and waste
Al Jazeera
- Free meals halted at schools in West Java amid volcanic ash risks
ANTARA News
- New head of Indonesia’s free meals programme quits after 45 days citing health reasons, as budget cuts loom
CNA
- Indonesia cuts budget of president’s free meals programme further to $16.5 billion
The Straits Times
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Promise: the Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) programme will reach all 82.9 million targeted beneficiaries by the end of April 2026, so that from May 2026 every intended recipient gets the meals. (BGN head Dadan Hindayana, 31 December 2025; earlier he had set the end of February 2026.)Dadan Hindayana, then head of the National Nutrition Agency (BGN)
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Images shared in October 2026 show Coordinating Minister for Food Zulkifli Hasan proposing to replace the Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) programme with cash aid of Rp300,000 a month.Facebook and TikTok accounts