Jakarta – Minister of Home Affairs (Minister of Home Affairs) Tito Karnavian will hold a meeting with all regional heads and related agencies tomorrow. This meeting discussed the issue of the expectation of free nutritious food poisoning (MBG). Reported by Antara, a virtual meeting with all regional heads in the country will be held at 08.00 WIB on Monday (9/29/2025). This meeting is to follow up and formulate a measure to prevent the incidence of free nutritious food poisoning (MBG). “Tomorrow we will be a zoom meeting of the Home Affairs Ministry with all regional heads, then the head of the health service, head of the education office and regional secretary,” Tito said at a press conference at the Ministry of Health Office (Kemenkes), Jakarta, Sunday (9/28/2025). Browse to continue with the content, he said, is still one of the discussion points in the coordination meeting of extraordinary events (KLB) in the free nutritious eating priority program led by the coordinating minister of food division Zulkifli Hasan. Tito said the meeting with the regional head will offer a number of speakers. Among them, Minister of Health (Menkes) Budi Gunadi Sadikin, Deputy Chief of the National Nutrition Agency (BGN) Nanik S. Deyang, as well as representatives of the Ministry of Elementary and Secondary Education (Kemendikdasmen). The presence of the resource person aims to give technical direction to the regional head to the head of the health office in each region to ensure that MBG poisoning does not appear again. Previously, there was an increase in cases of poisoning after the consumption of the MBG program in a number of regions over the past few weeks, which resulted in many students having to receive medical treatment. The National Nutrition Agency (BGN), which is the leading sector of this program, has issued a decision related to the expectation of MBG poisoning cases. Deputy Chief of BGN Nanik S. Deyang emphasized that all partner kitchens involved in poisoning cases received an official notice letter. “Today we issued a letter to all the kitchens that were previously problematic. The verification process is now much tighter,” he said in Jakarta on Friday (9/26). As part of supervision, BGN will consist of the inspection team consisting of elements of the Food and Drug Supervisory Agency (BPOM), the Health Office and the Police. This team has the task of directly evaluating the kitchen conditions and ensuring that the standards in the technical guidelines (technical guidelines) meet. Meanwhile, President Prabowo has paid special attention to this issue. Prabowo, who comes home from abroad, will immediately call the head of the National Nutrition Agency (BGN) Dadan Hindayana and related officials to discuss poisoning cases. “I was only 7 days from abroad, I have a monitor there is a development. After this I will immediately name the Head of BGN with how many officials we will discuss,” Prabowo said on Saturday (9/27). (RDP/IMK)
Rife MBG poisoning, the Minister of Home Affairs meets with all regional heads tomorrow
