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Coordinating Food Minister Zulkifli Hasan has suddenly become the target of public ire after a decade-old video of his interview with actor Harrison Ford resurfaced online, which for some netizens, made him a convenient scapegoat for the deadly floods in northern Sumatra.
The nutrition agency's newly issued food safety protocol includes time limits for food preparation, the use of sterile water and other measures in a bid to achieve zero incidents of food poisoning that has beset the ambitious free meals program, with two executive rules in the works to oversee its ongoing rollout.
Following the FDA’s advisory over contaminated frozen shrimp from Indonesia, the government revealed it had detected the same radioactive isotop in scrap metal imports from the Philippines, though it has not confirmed a link between the two.
The government plans to use the simplified categories "special" and "regular", with Bappenas to set the standard price for the latter, to combat the illicit practice of blending different grades of rice for selling at premium prices, which the President has condemned as a brazen "criminal act".
The new state-owned agriculture holding company, which reuses the name of a previous company associated with permit fraud, is to manage three subsidiaries in food, plantations and fisheries, despite the existence of other SOEs operating in these sectors.
President Prabowo Subianto’s administration is working on a new policy that aims to reduce overlaps between various ministries and state institutions on the implementation of the free nutritious meal program, while also looking to deal with potential impacts of the large-scale rollout.
