Coordinating Minister Muhaimin: Free Nutrition Eating Program Must Empower Local Business Actors
Coordinating Minister for Community Empowerment Muhaimin Iskandar stated that the Free Nutrition Food (MBG) program must have a positive economic impact on the community, especially for local business actors around schools, MSMEs, and cooperatives.
"This BMBG must really have an economic impact on the village community, for MSMEs, for cooperatives, for economic actors around schools," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, December 4.
Muhaimin explained that in addition to providing benefits in the form of fulfilling nutritious food for students, the MBG program must also support economic empowerment at the village and local community levels.
This MBG program, he said, must be an ecosystem that drives the community's economy. Thus, students will be fulfilled in terms of nutrition, while on the other hand the surrounding community will also be empowered through economic growth.
"We will continue to synergize so that the implementation of this MBG does not only provide nutritious food, but also has a real economic impact on the surrounding community," he said.
The implementation of MBG, according to Muhaimin, must consider aspects of local economic sustainability, so that business actors can benefit from this program in the long term.
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By involving MSMEs and cooperatives, it is hoped that new jobs will be created and encourage the economy of the village and local area.
"So this program does not only provide nutritious food, but instead nutritious food is available and has an economic impact on the community," he said.
Head of the National Nutrition Agency Dadan Hindayana targets as many as 82.9 million people to be recipients of the MBG program compiled from various official sources and will be verified in the field.
"First, the main basis is from schools, from the Ministry of Education and Culture," said Dadan.
He mentioned that the main target group of this program includes school students, pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, and toddlers.