Limited Budget, Prabowo's Free Nutritious Meal Program Cut to Rp7,500 per Child

Limited Budget, Free Nutritious Meal Program by Prabowo Reduced to Rp7,500 per Child.

Limited Budget, Prabowo's Free Nutritious Meal Program Cut to Rp7,500 per Child

Dream - Elected President Prabowo Subianto is reported to be cutting the budget for free nutritious meal programs. Initially, the budget was Rp15,000 per child, but now it has been reduced to only Rp7,500.

"Budget Cut"

The following text has been translated from 'Bahasa' to 'English' while preserving any HTML tags: "This was revealed by Verdhana Sekuritas economist, Heriyanto Irawan, after meeting with the Prabowo-Gibran Synchronization Task Force Team. Heriyanto mentioned that the Prabowo team is currently studying the issue of reducing the budget for nutritious meals to Rp7,500 to Rp9,000 per child."

"According to me, what interests me is this, after communicating the figure of Rp71 trillion, then the task of Mr. President elected to his economic team is certainly to consider whether the cost of food per day can be reduced from Rp15,000 to Rp9,000, to Rp7,500, approximately like that."
"ujar Heriyanto, quoted from Liputan6.com, Wednesday, July 17, 2024."

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He realized that efficiency is necessary so that the nutritious meal program can be gradually implemented with the provided budget. According to him, efficiency is an understandable step if we want to maintain the sustainability of the state budget.

"We can understand that as a politician, of course he (Prabowo) wants his program to reach as many people as possible."
he said.

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In response to this matter, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto stated that the budget for the Free Nutritious Meal program remains in accordance with the one proposed in the State Budget (RAPBN) 2025, amounting to Rp71 trillion.

"However, Airlangga continued, the implementation in the field of the free lunch program budget will be carried out flexibly. However, he himself did not mention in detail the adjustment of the allocation for the free lunch program."

"In the state budget, it remains the same, but the implementation has flexibility,"
"ujar Airlangga." translates to "said Airlangga."

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Limited Budget, Free Nutritious Meal Program by Prabowo Reduced to Rp7,500 per Child.

"Budget Cut"

"We can understand that as a politician, of course he (Prabowo) wants his program to reach as many people as possible."he said.

"In the state budget, it remains the same, but the implementation has flexibility,""ujar Airlangga." translates to "said Airlangga."

"We can understand that as a politician, of course he (Prabowo) wants his program to reach as many people as possible."
he said.

"In the state budget, it remains the same, but the implementation has flexibility,"
"ujar Airlangga." translates to "said Airlangga."