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Indonesia's Prabowo fires head of free meals scheme plagued by poisonings
Key takeaways
- The multi-billion-dollar scheme, a centrepiece of Prabowo's 2024 presidential campaign, aims to offer free meals to 80 million school children.
- But tens of thousands of children across the country have fallen ill since the programme was launched in January last year, leading to calls for it to be suspended.
- The sacking of Dadan Hindayana, an entomologist, comes a week after Indonesia's corruption watchdog filed a complaint alleging inconsistencies in budgeting across kitchens.
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Kelly Ng Getty Images. The free school meals programme is a centrepiece of the Prabowo government Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto has fired the head of the agency responsible for his flagship free meals programme, which has been plagued by mass food poisonings and corruption allegations.
The multi-billion-dollar scheme, a centrepiece of Prabowo's 2024 presidential campaign, aims to offer free meals to 80 million school children.
But tens of thousands of children across the country have fallen ill since the programme was launched in January last year, leading to calls for it to be suspended.
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