TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search results
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search resultsBGN to audit all free meals kitchens before new school year starts
Under its newly installed leadership, the BGN plans to audit all SPPG across the country before the new school year starts, focusing on quality as well as beneficiary data in a bid to improve the flagship feeding program.
Change text size
Gift Premium Articles
to Anyone
Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends, family, or colleagues. As a subscriber, you can gift 3 to 5 articles each month that anyone can read—no subscription needed!
Stacked odds: A worker arranges covered trays filled with freshly cooked food on May 6, 2026, at a nutrition fulfillment service unit (SPPG) based in the Ternate Police headquarters in North Maluku. (Antara/Andri Saputra)
T
he National Nutrition Agency (BGN) plans to conduct a comprehensive audit of all nutrition fulfillment service units (SPPG) during the monthlong break between school years, as the agency’s new leadership moves to improve quality and tighten oversight of the free nutritious meal program.
BGN deputy head Agustina Arumsari said the yearly break, which typically runs from mid-June to mid-July, would be used to review the operations at SPPG nationwide and address any shortcomings before students headed back to school.
“We will use this holiday period to suspend operations and audit all kitchens, so hopefully when children return to school, the conditions on the ground will be better and more orderly,” Agustina said on Monday in Jakarta, as quoted by Antara.
She said the audit would also focus on improving beneficiary data, which would allow the BGN to redesign incentive schemes and better align distribution with the number of beneficiaries each SPPG served.
“We hope the incentives will no longer be set at a flat Rp 6 million [US$338.26] for everyone,” she said, noting that kitchens currently received the same incentive regardless of whether they served 500 or 1,500 beneficiaries.
The agency is also considering consolidating some catering units as part of its effort to “refocus the program” on children that most needed nutritional intervention.
“We will evaluate not only how much output is produced but also whether food quality is maintained and safety standards are met,” she added.
The audit plan follows last week’s appointment of the new BGN leadership comprising Agustina, fellow deputy head Trenggono and head Nanik Sudaryati Deyang, after the Attorney General’s Office arrested former agency head Dadan Hindayana along with two deputies as suspects in a corruption case linked to the flagship program.
Since taking office, the new leadership has pledged to strengthen accountability and imposed a moratorium on designating new SPPG as it reviews some 27,000 existing facilities nationwide, amid growing scrutiny over graft allegations and thousands of reports on food poisoning cases.
