More than 360 Hit by Food Poisoning after Eating Free School Meal in Indonesian town

FREE LUNCH PROGRAM - SRAGEN, Indonesia. More than 360 people fell ill in Indonesia's town of Sragen in Central Java after consuming school lunches, an official said on Thursday, in the largest food poisoning case to hit President Prabowo Subianto's flagship free meals programme.

Since its launch in January, the free school meals programme has been marred by mass food poisoning cases across the archipelago, affecting over 1,000 people.

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