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The raid came just hours after President Prabowo Subianto sacked the head of the agency, Dadan Hindayana, which an official said was linked to governance and food quality concerns.
Teachers collect trays of food for their students, supplied by the Indonesian government's free meal programme, at an elementary school in Darul Kamal, Aceh province, on Oct 13, 2025. (Photo: AFP/Chaideer Mahyuddin)
03 Jun 2026 02:12PM
JAKARTA: Investigators from the office of Indonesia's Attorney General raided the headquarters of the country's National Nutrition Agency in the early hours of Wednesday (Jun 3), officials said, saying the building of the agency spearheading President Prabowo Subianto's flagship free meals programme was under lockdown.The programme was a key part of Prabowo's campaign to win the presidency in 2024, and the government has budgeted at least US$15 billion for an ambitious bid to provide free meals to 83 million children and pregnant women across the sprawling archipelago.A spokesman for the Attorney General's Office (AGO) confirmed the raid to Reuters in a text message, but declined to comment on what investigators were probing.The raid came just hours after Prabowo sacked the head of the agency, Dadan Hindayana, which an official said was linked to governance and food quality concerns.
