BGN Recruits Scholars With Food Skills Meet The Needs Of Nutritionists

JAKARTA - The National Nutrition Agency (BGN) opens opportunities for undergraduate recruitment from public health, food technology, food processing, and food safety to meet the needs of nutritionists in each Nutrition Fulfillment Service Unit (SPPG).

"Especially nutrition scholars, but now they can study public health, food technology, food processing, or food safety," said Head of BGN Dadan Hindayana as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, December 3.

The scholars will later be placed on SPPG-SPPGs that still do not have nutritionists. As of December 2025, there have been 16,630 SPPGs that have been established throughout the country.

"In accordance with the SPPG, one per SPPG, from the study programs as I mentioned earlier," said Dadan.

He emphasized that the three main pillars of the Free Nutrition Food Program (MBG) in each SPPG consisting of the head of the SPPG, accountants, and nutritionists must be filled by scholars who have expertise in their respective fields, considering that the MBG Program has become a national priority that determines the future of Indonesian children.

"There must be three pillars of SPPG, head of SPPG, nutritionist, and accountant. However, for our nutritionists we have a shortage, therefore we can now be filled with scholars from five study programs that can fill nutritionists at SPPG," he said.

To date, the MBG Program has served 47.2 million beneficiaries throughout Indonesia. BGN targets to reach 82.9 million beneficiaries by March or April 2026.

Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto said the MBG program is the government's top priority in 2026 with a budget of IDR 335 trillion.

President Prabowo Subianto at the end of November 2025 also stated that MBG had succeeded in producing more than 2 billion servings of food. The President again emphasized that MBG recipients consist of pregnant women, toddlers, and school students. "We have achieved if I'm not mistaken today more than 44 million beneficiaries of our children throughout Indonesia, pregnant women, early childhood," Prabowo said. The President added that with the total beneficiaries, at least 2 billion servings of food were produced and presented by SPPG. This amount is much larger than the total realization originally projected of 1.8 billion servings. "Every day we receive food, we have produced 2 billion 'meals', 2 billion meals, and we have conveyed them to the beneficiaries. I think this is a fairly proud achievement," said Prabowo.