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Indonesia’s Free Nutritious Meal Program Lags Behind in Southeast Asia

Monday, December 9, 2024

Indonesia still lags behind other countries that already implemented free school lunch programs.

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A school worker distributes a midday meal in a government primary school on the outskirts of Kolkata, India, September 10, 2022. Sudipta Das/Pacific Press/Sipa USA via REUTERS. tempo : 177361625050.

THE free nutritious meal program in schools, proposed by President Prabowo Subianto, has drawn attention from the United Nations because Indonesia, alongside Vietnam, is one of the countries in Southeast Asia that has yet to implement the meal program in primary schools. Indonesia remains behind countries like Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, which started such programs earlier. According to the United

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Iwan Kurniawan contributed to this article.

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