JAKARTA: More than 500 students in Indonesia’s East Java were hospitalised with food poisoning suspected to have been caused by state-supplied meals, regional officials said on Wednesday (Sep 2), as the government works to reform the agency overseeing its ambitious free-meals scheme.
President Prabowo Subianto launched his multibillion-dollar programme last year to eradicate under-nutrition by giving free meals to tens of millions of children, but the scheme has suffered from controversies such as food poisoning, corruption allegations, leadership changes and a burdensome price tag.
In East Java’s Sidoarjo region, more than 500 students fell…
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