Indonesia learns from S. Korea to develop local ingredients for free meals


Staff preparing lunch plates on Jan 6, 2025, the first day of the free nutritious meal programme, at a kitchen in Bogor, West Java. - AFP

JAKARTA: Indonesia will learn from South Korea in developing local ingredients for the free nutritious meal programme by considering environmental aspects, National Nutrition Agency (BGN) head Dadan Hindayana said on Wednesday (July 23).

“I know that the Koica [Korea International Cooperation Agency] has long been involved in agriculture for a long time,” Dadan told participants of the National Instrumentation Center for Agromaritime and Bioscience (NICAB) workshop at the IPB International Convention Center (IICC).

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