JAKARTA — Nearly four months after Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto launched his ambitious free meals for children program, missed payments to vendors, a lawsuit and incidents of food poisoning are tarnishing this flagship policy.
Officially rolled out in early Janu, the program had reached 3.26 million recipients as of Tuesday, including children from infants to high-schoolers, as well as pregnant women — with 2.3 trillion rupiah ($138.6 million) disbursed.
