Komdigi Affirms The Importance Of Digitization For The Success Of The MBG Program

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs emphasizes the importance of digitalization in managing the national-scale Free Nutrition Food (MBG) program which targets up to 82 million children by the end of 2025.

According to the Deputy Minister of Communication and Trade, Nezar Patria, digital intervention in the MBG Program is a strategic step to ensure program effectiveness, ensure nutritional quality, and strengthen the readiness of the Indonesian generation to welcome demographic bonuses.

"I think digital intervention or digitization in the process of implementing this free nutritious meal is a necessity because we will feed approximately 82 million at the end of 2025," he said in the official Komdigi broadcast.

Nezar explained that the success of the MBG Program can be created by digitizing starting from digital data management, starting from the food supply chain, monitoring nutrition standards, distribution, to reporting.

With the digital system, Nezar added, the entire process, including the prices of basic commodities, stock availability, quality of food, and delivery times, can be monitored in real-time so as to reduce potential errors, manipulation, and budget waste.

"Maybe it looks like it's just a cook and then it's distributed. But actually to prepare the food on time, it must be prepared from upstream to downstream," he said.

He also mentioned that many countries have succeeded in utilizing similar programs to increase the productivity and intelligence of children who will become superior workers in the future.

"This MBG' will have an impact on the readiness of our labor force, our workforce, our generation in building an economic ecosystem that we know will also be colored by the digital economy later," he said.