Beyond Numbers: Ensuring Food Safety in Indonesia’s MBG
This article examines how Indonesia’s MBG program, while reaching more than 30 million students, still faces a number of systemic food-safety risks that numbers alone cannot reveal. It reveals how gaps across the entire length supply chain, ranging from hygiene literacy to fragility in cold-chain and storage facilities can gravely compromise the promise of the program, as seen in various local incidents and also global evidence on foodborne disease. It argues that sustainable long term success will require far more stronger implementation, localized networks, coupled with shared responsibility from farmers to policymakers to ensure that every meal is actually very safe.
