Thomas Hopes Free Nutrition Eating Program Runs Smoothly Next Year

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Deputy Minister of Finance (Wamenkeu) II Thomas Djiwandono said that the flagship program of Elected President Prabowo Subianto, namely Free Nutrition Food (MBG), has started the process, such as its management agency and the budget is already there.

Thomas hopes that the free nutritious eating program can run smoothly because the National Nutrition Agency is already there to carry out the task of fulfilling national nutrition.

"MBG is already something specific that has been going on in a process. We hope that MBG will run smoothly next year and I think that hope will be achieved by making a decision that the nutrition agency has been formed, it has been formed," he said when met at the Ministry of Finance, Wednesday, September 11.

Previously, the Head of the National Nutrition Agency Dadan Hindayana revealed that the nutritious food program and free milk would target more than 15 million people to become targets for recipients of the program in the early stages of 2025.

"At least 15 million (people). The data will be available later," said Dadan when met at the DPR RI Building, Tuesday, September 10.

As for data on free nutritious food recipients, Dadan claims that the data is the result of direct mapping by the National Nutrition Agency, not from the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) or the Ministry of Social Affairs (Kemensos).

"No (data from the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Social Affairs), we have our own data. There is data," he said.

Dadan conveyed that the implementation of the program was worth IDR 71 trillion, including part of the operational budget of the National Nutrition Agency.

However, for the details of the budget, Dadan explained that he could not provide more detailed information because his party was completing the Structural Organization and Governance (SOTK), Work Plan (Renja), Work Plan and Budget (RKA), and Strategic Plan (Renstra).

Especially for SOTK, Dadan said that it will be completed this week, lantan has entered the analysis stage at the Ministry of Administrative Reform and Bureaucratic Reform.

"Later there will be technical details. We are now focusing on completing the SOTK, Renja, RKA, and Renstra. When it's finished, it's included in the APBN Law, then we'll explain," he said.