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Academia 3 months ago
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Reforming the free meals program: A hard choice between purpose and political specter
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.
Society 8 months ago
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Indonesia has world's largest methanol poisoning cases, 30% fatal
A webinar on methanol poisoning involving experts from the WHO and other health professionals last week has pointed to an urgency for emergency planning to reduce illness and related risks in Indonesia, including ensuring the availability of antidotes.
Society 10 months ago
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Mass poisoning cases surge as free meals continue
At least 11,566 people have suffered from mass food poisoning after consuming government-sanctioned free nutritious meal packages since the program rollout, according to education watchdog group Network for Education Watch Indonesia (JPPI).
Editorial 11 months ago
The palace’s press restriction
The presidential press chief's stripping a palace reporter of her credentials during a media conference, though reinstated less than a week later, has sharpened scrutiny of the state of press freedom in the country and by extension, freedom of speech.
Archipelago 11 months ago
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Over 1,000 West Java students sick from school meals in food poisoning outbreak
Questions have been raised about standards and oversight of the scheme, which has expanded rapidly to reach over 20 million recipients, with an ambitious goal of feeding 83 million of Indonesia's 280 million people by year-end.
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