Thousands of Indonesian free meals kitchens complained on Tuesday they had been left in the lurch by the government’s move to scale down President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship free meals programme to save money.
Jakarta is considering a potential budget cut of more than US$2 billion with reductions in the number of beneficiaries and kitchen operators.
There are currently nearly 28,000 kitchens and the National Nutrition Agency (NNA) plans to temporarily halt the addition of 13,000 new...