JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia needs 100 trillion rupiah ($6.11 billion) in additional budget for its free nutritious meals programme to be expanded to reach 82 million recipients, the head of a government agency overseeing the programme said on Friday.
Agency head Dadan Hindayana told reporters President Prabowo Subianto is considering ways to expand the programme by the end of 2025. It currently has a budget of 71 trillion rupiah .
($1 = 16,360.0000 rupiah)
(Reporting by Stefanno Sulaiman and Ananda Teresia; Writing by Gayatri Suroyo; Editing by Martin Petty)
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