Puan over MBG poisoning: Evaluation for better implementation

Jakarta – Speaker of Indonesian Parliament Puan Maharani responded in a number of regions to the case of free nutritious food poisoning (MBG). Puan encouraged an evaluation so that no more students MBG were poisoned. “Yes, an evaluation must always be performed to be followed up, to be able to implement in the field can be better and not the children who are then harmed,” Puan said Monday (9/22/2025). Puan said that the implementation of MBG was not easy to do. He hopes that there will be a total evaluation regarding the alleged MBG poisoning report. Browse to continue with the content “, so it is not easy to execute it, so the parties involved should be able to do a total evaluation,” Puan said. Previously, as many as 657 students in Garut, West -Java, were presumably poisoned after eating a free nutritional menu (MBG). The MBG Menu Provider Kitchen was temporarily closed. “Yes, it is pending it means it is temporarily closed,” West Java Garut Abdusy Syakur Amin told reporters in Garut, reports on Monday (9/22) by Antara. He said the authority of the MBG program was entirely in the National Nutrition Agency (BGN). While the region is the beneficiary of the program. With the incident, he said, the MBG Kitchen or the Nutrition Services Felatment Unit (SPPG) in the Kadungora district, whose students were consumed by the students, did not even act while waiting for the results of laboratory tests. (DWR/GBR)