Managed Together, One Public Kitchen In Batam Bida Generates 3,000 MBG Portions Of Students

MBG di Batam (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Education Office (Disdik) of Batam City, Riau Islands said that one healthy public kitchen produces 3,000 portions of Free Nutrition Food (MBG) per day to be distributed to school students. The MBG program is seen as one of the efforts of the Batam City Government to support the fulfillment of student nutrition needs.

Head of the Batam City Education Office, Tri Wahyu Rubianto, in Batam, Saturday, January 11, said that in supporting the implementation of the MBG, there were four public kitchens that were the result of collaboration between the Batam City Government and the private sector. Then there was also support from the public kitchen managed by Kodim 0316/Batam.

"The local government has also prepared a companion budget to support the sustainability of this program, including the development of a public kitchen owned by the regional government," Tri said as quoted by ANTARA.

He said this program is projected to cover 213,700 students from the PAUD, Kindergarten to junior high school levels under the authority of the Batam Education Office.

"In addition, this program is expected to reduce the economic burden on the family, especially for students from underprivileged circles," he said.

Head of the Batam City Environment Agency (DLH), Riau Islands Herman Rozie hopes that the Free Nutrition Food (MBG) program for elementary, junior high, and high school / equivalent students does not use single-use eating utensils.

This is very important in order to reduce the accumulation of waste. If MBG uses plastic or styrofoam, it can create big problems if not handled properly.

"I hope that with this free lunch, for example there are 10 thousand school children, the free lunch is good, but the garbage must be managed," said Herman.