JAKARTA - Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) found that all the Nutrition Fulfillment Service Units (SPPG) owned by the National Police to support the Free Nutritious Meal or MBG program, can receive incentives of up to Rp. 2 trillion per year from the National Nutrition Agency (BGN).
President Prabowo Subianto inaugurated 1,179 SPPG and 18 Polri food security warehouses at the SPPG Palmerah, West Jakarta, Friday (13/2/2026). At the event, the National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo also targeted 1,500 Polri SPPG throughout Indonesia in 2026. This means that there will be an addition of approximately 321 SPPG from the current available amount.
"This is done to expand the reach of nutritional fulfillment services and ensure increased access for beneficiaries to nutritious food," said General Pol. Listyo Sigit Prabowo.
A total of 1,179 SPPG belonging to the National Police are spread across various regions, with 411 SPPGs in operation, 162 SPPGs in operational preparation, 499 SPPGs in the construction phase which will be completed in March 2026, and 107 SPPGs in the groundbreaking phase.
When all the SPPGs are operational, it is projected to benefit 2,947,500 people and absorb 58,950 workers. Listyo added, of this number, as many as 33 SPPGs were built in lagging, leading, and outermost (3T) areas.
The massive SPPG that the National Police is working on now has received widespread attention. The practice of managing SPPG by the National Police, according to ICW, has the potential to trigger conflicts of interest due to family relations between the police and the foundation.
Privilise PolriBased on the findings of ICW, the management of all SPPG Polri is not carried out directly, but through intermediaries. The Kemala Bhayangkari Foundation, an organization that oversees the wives of police officers, is a MBG project partner affiliated with the police.
Apart from being at the central level, this foundation has branches attached to almost all Regional Police (Polda) and Police Resor (Polres) in Indonesia. Reported from the official website of the Kemala Bhayangkari Foundation, at least as of May 5, 2025, there are 419 Kemala Bhayangkari Foundations with the composition of the number of management: 378 branch levels, 34 regional management levels, 5 levels of independent branch management, 1 combined management level, and 1 central management level. Each regional management has a different composition of managers and members.
"However, the leadership of the foundation has always been consistently filled by the wife of the Police Chief or the Police Chief in the region concerned," said the ICW website.
The ICW findings also stated that BGN provided privileges to the National Police if it wanted to build a MBG kitchen. For the National Police, there is no maximum limit of 10 SPPG per foundation, as stated in the National Nutrition Agency Decree Number 401.1 of 2025 concerning Technical Instructions for the Management of the Free Nutritional Meal Program for the 2026 Fiscal Year.
In the same technical instructions, BGN provides a daily incentive for free for each SPPG of Rp6,000,000 per day for six days. The incentive is given without depending on the number of servings served. The nature of the incentive is daily and valid for a period of two years from the date the SPPG starts operating.
In other words, in one year, this incentive will be handed over 313 times following the operation of the SPPG in 2026. Even during school holidays, SPPG still receives incentives.
Based on ICW's calculations, it can be assumed that in a period of one year alone, there is at least Rp2,214,162,000,000 that will be received by the Kemala Bhayangkari Foundation if 1,179 Polri SPPGs that are already operating throughout Indonesia are indeed managed by the foundation.
"This is in addition to other cost components that will be obtained such as raw material and operational costs and also an initial fund of Rp. 500,000,000," continued ICW.
Possibility of CorruptionThe practice of managing SPPG by the National Police, according to ICW, also has the potential to trigger conflicts of interest due to the family relationship between the police and the foundation, as well as financial conflicts of interest due to various incentives and costs obtained from BGN when managing the MBG kitchen.
Head of the ICW Advocacy Division Egi Primayogha said the opportunity for embezzlement against the implementation of the Polri SPPG budget was rooted in the lack of transparency.
According to Egi, the government did not provide information on how much tax residents used to fund the operations of the SPPG Polri, or through which agency the budget was issued.
Without transparency, the loopholes for corruption become open. And, the problem will be more strange if there is a problem that drags the SPPG Polri. He denies the poisoning case that is quite often experienced by MBG recipients.
If this happens, Egi questions how far the police will act if it is found in the SPPG owned by the National Police. According to him, the police do not have the urgency to open the SPPG, because in fact the main task of the National Police is law enforcement and security or order.
Similarly, Center of Economic and Law Studies (Celios) legal researcher Muhammad Saleh said the participation of the National Police in the MBG, especially in the formation of the SPPG, was a serious problem of government policy governance. Given the role of the police as an executor, Saleh considers monitoring or supervision of them to be weaker.
"If there is fraud or poisoning, they investigate themselves. In fact, their function should be law enforcement. The question is: can it be firm when the spotlight is also related to them?" asked Saleh.
"So it's like eating oranges."
The MBG program, according to Saleh, should not be implemented centrally, top down, but should be directly handed over to the stakeholders, namely schools.
"So, let the school manage, let the scheme be like that, with partnerships with school canteens or the community," said Saleh.
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