A student of state junior high school in Denpasar, Bali shows a variety of food received as part of the government free meals programme. - Antara
JAKARTA: Indonesia has spent just 2.3 trillion rupiah (US$138.55 million) so far in President Prabowo Subianto's flagship programme to provide free school meals for students and expecting mothers, its finance ministry said on Wednesday (April 30).
Launched in January, the vaunted programme has reached just 3.27 million recipients as of April 29, with more than 1,000 kitchens operating across the archipelago, the ministry said.
