Kalla warns free meals programme cannot shield Indonesia from Trump tariffs


JAKARTA: President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship free nutritious meal programme cannot shield the Indonesian economy from the impact of United States tariffs on imports from the archipelago, former vice president Jusuf Kalla (pic0 has said.

He argued that the free meals programme was purely a domestic policy in nature and has no connection to international trade dynamics.

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