Macroeconomics

Indonesia Dishes Out First Free Meals in Programme Targeting 83 Million People

January 06, 2025, 03.47 PM | Source: Reuters

ILUSTRASI. The free meal plan will be a Herculean logistical effort when in full swing, with a target by 2029 of reaching 82.9 million of the country's 280 million population. ANTARA FOTO/Aloysius Jarot Nugroho/tom.

MACROECONOMICS - JAKARTA. Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto's ambitious multi-billion dollar programme to provide free meals to more than a quarter of his people was officially underway on Monday, officials said, with 570,000 mouths to feed on its opening day.

Despite being the centrepiece of an election campaign that catapulted Prabowo to power last year, the scheme was rolled out with little fanfare on Monday, with no official launch and just 190 kitchens involved in preparing the first meals to school children and pregnant women in more than 20 provinces.

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