Simpang Siur Free Nutrition Food Packages, Prabowo-Gibran Team Affirms No Price

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The Prabowo-Gibran Synchronization Task Force Team emphasized that the discussion of the free nutritious food budget has not yet reached a price determination. So that rumors related to the free nutritious food budget are cut for IDR 15,000 to IDR 7,500 per child.

"In my opinion, the issue that has developed has started to get far from the truth about the free nutritious meal being set at Rp7,500, suddenly there is such a number. Until today, the only thing we can conclude is that the budget allocation for free nutritious food in 2025, the range is Rp71 trillion," said a member of the Prabowo-Gibran Synchronization Team during a press conference broadcast on YouTube Prabowo-Gibran, Friday, July 19.

"So this is the only one that has reached the level of conclusion, the others are still in process," he continued.

Hasan explained, from the Rp71 trillion budget, President-elect Prabowo Subianto instructed that free nutritious food must meet the nutritional adequacy standards. Second, the number of beneficiaries of the free nutritious eating program must be optimized.

"Because the available budget is IDR 71 trillion. So, the number of beneficiaries will be optimized later. So all research processes, all study processes and pilot projects will rely on two directions from Prabowo Subianto," Hasan Nasbi explained.

Meanwhile, the issue of free nutritious food prices for each child has not been determined. Therefore, Hasan was surprised if someone said that Prabowo had cut the free nutritious food budget to Rp7,500 per child.

"The nutritional needs will be determined by nutritionists. So, there is no playing at this price. It doesn't exist yet, the numbers don't exist at all. I'm confused that the numbers have dropped while our own numbers haven't come out," he said.

Hasan said that the determination of prices will depend on food raw materials available in various regions. Thus, the menu per beneficiary area will not be the same.

"In various regions, it depends on what food availability, what kind of nutritional needs we can mix, the price will adjust later. So, that's roughly the way the process is carried out like that," he said.

Hasan revealed that currently the expert team is conducting a trial, so that later it will be found what must be corrected and must be anticipated. Then it leads to conclusions including pricing.

"But this is still ongoing, so if it hasn't worked yet, there must be no conclusion, including about prices, this is what we need to emphasize. All the formulas that the project pilot will produce are the conclusion that must meet these two things, nutritional adequacy and must be as many as possible who receive benefits," Hasan said.

Therefore, Hasan considered it inappropriate if someone said that the price of free nutritious food was IDR 7,500 per child. Because the Prabowo-Gibran team is also looking for a formula to determine the best product.

"This is Prabowo Gibran's flagship program, so this is prepared as well as possible. However, in the midst of this process, issues such as Rp7,500 emerged. I hope that in the future there will be no speculation and the grip will be on the official team whether it is an expert and a synchronization team, including the question of prices, in my opinion, it is still far away because the process is still ongoing," he concluded.