Managing Presidential Decree MBG Requires Raw Materials From Cooperatives

Coordinating Minister for Food Zulkifli Hasan (two from the left) in a meeting on Presidential Regulation (Perpres) on Free Nutrition Governance (MBG) in Jakarta on Wednesday (3/12/2025). ANTARA/Lintang Budiyanti Prameswari

Coordinating Minister (Menko) for Food Zulkifli Hasan (Zulhas) conveyed that Presidential Regulation (Perpres) on Governance for Free Nutrition Food (MBG) requires raw materials to be from cooperatives.

"In the Presidential Regulation, raw materials must be from cooperatives, so there is an economic loop (integrated supply chain), later the raw materials in the SPPG are regulated in the Presidential Decree from the Village Cooperative, BUMDes, MSMEs, or other trading businesses," said the Coordinating Minister for Food. reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, December 3.

Zulhas stated that there are 13 derivative regulations from the Presidential Decree on the Governance of the MBG, including regulating the acceleration of Higiene and Sanitation Laik Certificates (SLHS), fulfilling nutritionists, and accelerating the construction of the Nutrition Fulfillment Service Unit (SPPG) in disadvantaged, frontier, and outermost (3T) areas.

"So later there will be 13 derivative regulations, it's just a matter of adjusting the Presidential Decree in the existing regulations in BGN," he said.

Zulhas also conveyed the importance of accelerating financial training in each SPPG and ensuring that the supply of raw materials for MBG could be fulfilled.

Meanwhile, the National Nutrition Agency (BGN) stated that it is building 8,200 SPPG in remote areas to meet MBG's needs so that its distribution is more evenly distributed.

"Now it has been identified that there are 8,200 SPPGs in remote areas that will be built, and those in the process are 4,700, while those that will be completed in December 2025 are approximately 170. The number of MBG beneficiaries in remote areas is no more than three million people throughout Indonesia," said Head of BGN Dadan Hindayana.

He said, for December 2025, 20 thousand SPPGs will only be formed in agglomeration areas, plus 170 in remote areas.

"But in the next two months, around January-February 2026, it is most likely that all SPPGs have been formed, so that March or April 2026.82.9 million can be achieved," 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.