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JAKARTA: Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto removed on Tuesday (Jun 2) the head of the body responsible for his signature free school meals programme, which has been blighted by mass food poisonings and corruption claims.The much-hyped billion-dollar scheme was the flagship policy of Prabowo’s 2024 election campaign.The government says it has provided meals to more than 61 million people by March, but tens of thousands of people have fallen ill since the programme was launched in January last year.”The president has decided to make changes to the leadership of the National Nutrition Agency,” State Secretary Prasetyo Hadi told reporters in Jakarta,…
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