BGN asks SPPG to break cooperation with a partner who marks up MBG raw materials

JAKARTA - Deputy Head of the National Nutrition Agency (BGN) Nanik Sudaryati Deyang asked the Nutrition Fulfillment Service Unit (SPPG) to break up cooperation with partners who raise the price or mark-up of Free Nutritious Food (MBG) raw materials to obtain personal benefits.

Nanik emphasized that this was in response to the many reports from SPPG about partners who often mark up food raw materials for the MBG kitchen. He reminded all SPPG officers never to compromise with partners who implement fraudulent practices so that they can contaminate this MBG program.

"Remember! The head of the SPPG, financial supervisor, nutrition supervisor, never want to follow the will, especially even work together with SPPG partners who mark up the price of food raw materials for this MBG Program, especially with the poor quality of food," he said as reported by ANTARA, Thursday, February 26.

Nanik also received many reports from the heads of SPPG about partners who mark-up prices above the total retail price (HET) and force them to accept poor quality raw materials.

"Please provide all the data. You go around, check directly to SPPG-SPPG, wherever this markup occurs," he said.

He emphasized that if the Financial Supervisory Agency (BPK) found food materials with prices above HET in the SPPG financial statements, then the head of SPPG must be responsible.

"Partners can be sloppy, but you (the head of the SPPG) have to deal with the law," said Nanik.

He also threatened rogue partners who had marked up the price of food ingredients above HET, and forced the heads of SPPG to accept food raw materials from suppliers they pointed out, especially with poor quality.

"The head of the SPPG, please convey to your partners, if anyone is caught up in the price of food, and only provides one or two suppliers, then I will say goodbye!" he said.

Suppliers of food raw materials for the MBG kitchen, must not be dominated by suppliers directed by partners. SPPG must empower farmers, livestock farmers, fishermen, cooperatives, and MSMEs around the MBG kitchen to become suppliers of food ingredients. The cooperatives in question are also not cooperatives made by partners just to circumvent rules.

With the involvement of many suppliers of food ingredients, it is hoped that people around the kitchen will also feel the benefits of the MBG Program, because the wheels of the economy in the village are moving.

"SPPG must use a minimum of 15 suppliers of food raw materials to meet the needs of each," he said.

The involvement of local communities as suppliers of MBG kitchens has also been clearly regulated in Presidential Regulation (Perpres) number 115 of 2025 concerning the Management of MBG Implementation. In article 38 paragraph 1, it is stated that the implementation of MBG prioritizes the use of domestic products and the involvement of micro enterprises, small enterprises, individual companies, cooperatives, red and white village cooperatives, and Village Owned Enterprises.