JAKARTA — Indonesia will open thousands of kitchens in 2025 as the incoming government led by President-elect Prabowo Subianto kicks off his multi-billion-dollar free meals programme, the head of the agency running the initiative said on Oct 8. Prabowo will be sworn in as Indonesia's next president on Oct 20.
Initially, meals will be given to around 20 million students from January at a cost of 71 trillion rupiah .JAKARTA — Indonesia will open thousands of kitchens in 2025 as the incoming government led by President-elect Prabowo Subianto kicks off his multi-billion-dollar free meals programme, the head of the agency running the initiative said on Oct 8.In the first stage of his plan, meals will be given to around 20 million students from January at a cost of 71 trillion rupiah .
Dadan Hindayana, head of the national nutrition agency, told an investment forum that at least 5,000 kitchens, called "service units", will be set up in 2025, before ramping up to 30,000 units in 2027. The estimated demand for food under this programme is at 312,000 metric tonnes of rice, 546,000 metric tonnes of chicken meat or 4.68 billion eggs, 936 million litres of milk and 546,000 metric tonnes of vegetables, according to Reuters calculation based on the agency's data and accounting for six days a week.
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