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The Messy Meal Program

Monday, October 13, 2025

The problems plaguing the Free Nutritious Meal program today are just the beginning, a result of a shortcut solution and poor planning.

Students of SDN 15 Slipi enjoy free nutritious meals in Jakarta, January 20, 2025. Tempo/Ilham Balindra. tempo : 176565404996.

IF the issue is hunger, the free nutritious meal (MBG) program is not the answer to feeding the Indonesian people. Prabowo Subianto’s diagnosis that Indonesia’s high stunting rate is a critical problem is, in fact, grounded in sound logic.

In his book Paradox Indonesia and Its Solution (2022), Prabowo mentions the word “hunger” three times. He expresses distress over data showing that even in Jakarta, one out of three chi

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