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View all search resultsIndonesia learns from S. Korea to develop local ingredients for free meals
The use of local ingredients for the free nutritious meal program can help accelerate the local agriculture sector.
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Staff prepare lunch plates on Jan. 6, 2025, the first day of the free nutritious meal program, at a kitchen in Bogor, West Java. The government aims to feed around 83 million schoolchildren and pregnant women through the free meals program, which was one of President Prabowo Subianto's key promises during the 2024 presidential election. (AFP/Aditya Aji)
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ndonesia will learn from South Korea in developing local ingredients for the free nutritious meal program by considering environmental aspects, National Nutrition Agency (BGN) head Dadan Hindayana said on Wednesday.
“I know that the KOICA [Korea International Cooperation Agency] has long been involved in agriculture for a long time,” Dadan told participants of the National Instrumentation Center for Agromaritime and Bioscience (NICAB) workshop at the IPB International Convention Center (IICC).
“I believe this is the right time because when the free meals program was developed, 95 percent of ingredients being used were agricultural produce.”
The workshop was jointly organized by the KOICA and Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) from Wednesday to Friday. Participants came from the Higher Education, Science and Technology Ministry, the National Research and Innovation Agency and the National Development Planning Board, as well as academicians and leaders from Indonesia’s top universities.
Dadan said that Korea used local ingredients for its free meal program, something that can be adopted here.
“In the future, we will also do something like that, because our need will be big. We are already on the right track, similar to what South Korea and Japan developed, we will emphasize the use of local ingredients,” he said.
“Every SPPG [nutrition fulfilment service unit] and nutritionists will craft a menu based on the potential of local resources and also the preference of the local people.”
