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Indonesia has new food safety rules for free meals. Why are students still falling ill?

South China Morning Post 09 September 2026 11h ago
Indonesia has new food safety rules for free meals. Why are students still falling ill?
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Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship free nutritious meals programme is facing renewed scrutiny after yet another wave of mass food poisoning that affected more than 2,000 students, raising questions about why safeguards on paper fail to translate to food safety on the ground. A series of illnesses were reported in Java, Sumatra, and Sulawesi in the past week. The latest was on Tuesday
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