Indonesia dishes out first free meals in programme targeting 83m people

[Bangkok Post] - 01/6/2025

JAKARTA - Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto's ambitious multi-billion dollar programme to provide free meals to more than a quarter of his people was officially underway on Monday, officials said, with 570,000 mouths to feed on its opening day.



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