BGN Requires SPPG to Have Social Media So that the Community Can Monitor MBG

JAKARTA - The National Nutrition Agency (BGN) requires all Nutrition Fulfillment Service Units (SPPG) to have social media (medsos) Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, so that the public can also monitor the Free Nutritious Meal (MBG) Program together.

"Who evaluates every day? The public is direct, because we have ordered all SPPG heads every day to create social media that we have determined, namely Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok," said Deputy Head of BGN Sony Sanjaya as reported by ANTARA, Friday, March 6.

He said that there are already 45,000 SPPG social media which are a means of evaluation for the community, both in terms of menu, nutritional quality, to price.

"So, every day they are required to show what the menu is, what the nutritional quality is, and what the price is. Every week, we also hold webinars, if Zoom Meeting is interactive, that's a small evaluation. We also carry out evaluations per district, these are minimalist menus, so there are no more watermelon fans (cut too thin)," he said.

According to him, through these evaluations, it is hoped that there will be a sense of shame from SPPG that makes the menu below the quality of MBG served at other SPPG.

"If it is required to upload to social media, at least there is a shame effect. On each package, there must also be nutritional information and price, this is a form of transparency and public accountability," he said.

BGN will also take firm action against SPPG individuals who pretend to be deceived when building kitchens to serve the MBG Program.

"There is a modus operandi of pretending to build first, then pretending to be cheated so that you are sure that it is verified, but there are also those who are really cheated, like yesterday someone came to me, 'Sir, I was cheated, my kitchen is already done, but I was cheated, it didn't go into the system.' Then, I asked, who is the cheater? If there is, report it, I want to know to distinguish between the modus and the right one," he explained.

Sony explained that when a prospective partner was asked who the scammer was but refused to answer, it could be assumed that it was only a method to get verification from BGN.

"If he doesn't want to answer, or says, 'Yes, it is, sir,' that is, then of course the modus, but if the person is really cheated, now the report has been accepted by the police, it is clear who the scammer is, soon it may be aired who the scammer is, because at least one person has Rp. 100 million in losses," he said.

Sony emphasized that BGN had closed the SPPG registration, because it had met the quota to serve the MBG Program. Until today there have been more than 24,000 SPPGs standing up across Indonesia.