Hindayana said the money would get an estimated 6.7 million tons of rice, 1.2 million loads of meat, 500, 000 tons of meat, 1 million tons of tuna, vegetable and fruit, and 4 million kiloliters of cheese, and at least 5, 000 kitchens may be set up across the country.
A vehicle carrying on 3, 000 meals arrived in the Jakarta dish area of Depok on Monday before breakfast at SD Cilangkap 08, a primary school. The 740 pupils were provided sheets containing wheat, stir-fried vegetables, tempeh, stir-fried meat and oranges.
According to Hindayana,” we send a staff to each school to help the food distribution to students every day,” adding that the program will give one meal per day for each student from first childhood through senior high school, making up a third of the children’s daily nutritional needs at no cost to the recipients.
Investors and analysts have criticized the populist program, which ranges from conflation with the needs of industrial lobby groups or the sheer volume of logistics required to the burden placed on Indonesia’s state finances and economy.
Nailul Huda, an economist at the Center for Economic and Law Studies, claimed that because of Indonesia’s tight fiscal conditions, state finances are not strong enough to support the burden of the debt, which will result in additional state debt.
The burden on our state budget is too heavy if it is forced to reach 100 % of the target recipients, according to Huda, and it will be difficult for Prabowo’s government to meet the economic growth target of 8 %.