Schools Will Be Allowed To Open Their Own Kitchens For MBG

The activities of the nutritional fulfillment service unit (SPPG) in the MBG Program (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Minister of Basic and Secondary Education (Mendikdasmen) Abdul Mu'ti said schools would be allowed to open kitchens for the provision of free nutritious food (MBG), following the many cases of MBG menu poisoning in various regions.

According to him, in a cross-ministerial meeting in Jakarta, the government agreed to improve the implementation of the MBG according to President Prabowo Subianto's expectations. It is possible for schools to open their own kitchens and just wait for a decision.

"We have held cross-ministerial meetings several times, we have met to improve the implementation of the MBG, so it is safe and can be carried out as expected by the president," said Abdul Mu'ti during a visit in Kudus Regency, Central Java, Tuesday, October 7.

During the visit to his hometown, Abdul Mu'ti said that the provision of the MBG menu in the future is not only through a nutritional fulfillment service unit (SPPG), but it is possible that schools are also ready to open their own kitchens to fulfill student nutrition.

"There is a possibility, it hasn't been decided yet, there is a possibility that the system doesn't all have to go through a kitchen that has so far. It is possible that there is an approach we call it a stoll kitchen," he explained.

According to him, school kitchens will be required to follow the requirements and conditions applied by the National Nutrition Agency (BGN).

"We are now waiting for the president's statement which contains changes to the MBG management and implementation system, which will be waiting until the Presidential Decree is actually issued," said the secretary general of PP Muhammadiyah.