A student eating lunch on the first day of a free-meal programme at an elementary school in Bogor, West Java, on Jan 6, 2025. - AFP Download The Jakarta Post app for easier and faster news access: Android: http://bit.ly/tjp-android iOS: http://bit.ly/tjp-ios
JAKARTA: More than 360 people fell ill in Sragen, Central Java after consuming school lunches, an official said on Thursday (Aug 14), in the largest food poisoning case to hit President Prabowo Subianto's flagship free meals programme.
Since its launch in January, the free school meals programme has been marred by mass food poisoning cases across the country, affecting over 1,000 people.
