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View all search resultsA single top-down mandate is draining Indonesia’s village coffers for state cooperatives, gutting the local budgets that keep maternal clinics running, malnourished children fed and grassroots democracy alive.
The crisis surrounding the government's flagship free meals program urges a fundamental rethink: restore the program's original focus as an anti-stunting intervention for vulnerable groups or maintain the current, unsustainable model of a universal feeding program that leaves it open to rent seeking.
Distributing food isn't always the solution to stunting in Indonesia; it is also about investing in community health workers so as to formalize and elevate an existing system that forms the backbone of maternal and child care in the remotest regions.
All eyes will be on President Prabowo Subianto’s administration on Monday with the rollout of the landmark free nutritious meals program, which will focus most of the work on densely populated Java in the first phase of a multiyear effort to improve the nation’s overall nutritional intake.
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