Jakarta Gets IDR 2 Trillion Allotment Running Free Eating Program Next Year

JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government has started to draw up a budget allocation for the implementation of free nutritious meals by 2025. The plan is for President Prabowo Subianto's flagship program to be financed by the central government to finance revenue sharing funds (DBH).

DBH is a fund sourced from the APBN allocated to the APBD. In the discussion of the DKI DPRD Budget Agency (Banggar), the allocation of DBH for free meals programs next year is around Rp. 2 trillion.

"From IDR 6 trillion, it's around IDR 2 trillion for free meals, if I'm not mistaken. The budget is from the Ministry of Finance," Deputy Chairman of the DKI DPRD Ima Mahdiah told reporters, Friday, October 25.

This free nutritious eating program, continued Ima, is included in the national strategic program, in addition to handling congestion, flooding, and waste management.

"National strategic programs that have a direct impact on the national community," said Ima.

Over the past few months, the DKI Provincial Government has started to run trials of distributing free food to schools in Jakarta.

In this trial, the food financing distributed to students used corporate social responsibility (CSR) funds for DKI regional-owned enterprises (BUMD).

Thousands of nutritious food packages have been distributed by the DKI Provincial Government to 12 schools in Jakarta over the past two months.

With details of SDN Cideng 07, Central Jakarta as many as 498 packages; SDN Rawa Badak Utara 03, North Jakarta as many as 371 packages; SDN 04 Cipayung, East Jakarta as many as 800 packages.

SDN Gunung 1 Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta as many as 620 packages; SDN 01 and SMPN 03 Manggarai, South Jakarta as many as 1,500 packages; SDN 05 and 07 Wijaya Kusuma, West Jakarta as many as 700 packages; SDN 03 Rorotan.

Then North Jakarta as many as 900 packages; SMAN 70 Bulungan, South Jakarta as many as 1,300 packages; SMKN 26 Rawamangun, East Jakarta as many as 1,600 packages; SDN Menteng 03, Central Jakarta as many as 500 packages; SMPN 270, North Jakarta as many as 700 packages; and SDIT Al Ihsan Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta as many as 700 packages.