JAKARTA - President Prabowo Subianto has arrived in the country after a 4th visit to the country for 7 days, including attending a UN assembly session in New York, United States. He immediately responded to the many cases of Free Nutrition Food poisoning (MBG) which have caught the public's attention recently.
Prabowo said that MBG is a large-scale program that certainly does not escape the shortcomings of its implementation. Moreover, the MBG has only been launched for not even one year.
Nevertheless, Prabowo believes that all problems that occur in the implementation of the MBG program will be resolved and get improvements.
"This is a big (program) problem, so there must be shortcomings in the beginning. But, I'm also sure that we will solve it well," Prabowo said at Halim Perdanakusuma Air Base, Jakarta, as quoted from the Presidential Secretariat's YouTube channel on Saturday, September 27.
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Prabowo also said he would immediately summon the Head of the National Nutrition Agency (BGN) Dadan Hindayana to discuss the problems that occurred in the MBG program, especially mass poisoning that occurred in a number of areas.
"I've only been from abroad for seven days, I monitor that there are developments. After this, I will immediately call the Head of BGN with several officials we will discuss it," he said.
Prabowo also reminded again that MBG's goal is to provide free and nutritious food for all Indonesian children, especially those who have difficulty eating.
"The goal of eating nutritious is for our children who often have difficulty eating, maybe we are eating well, they are only rice using salt that we have to give," he concluded.
It is known, from January to September 25, 2025, there were 5,914 beneficiaries affected by the MBG food safety incident. This September, at least 2,210 people were victims of MBG poisoning.
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