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Prisha Roy

2,000 sick after Indonesia school meals; rights body seeks probe

Around 2,000 students and teachers have reportedly fallen ill after eating government-provided free meals across several Indonesian provinces this week, prompting the country's top independent human rights body, Komnas HAM, to call on Friday for a police investigation. Komnas HAM also urged the National Nutrition Agency, which oversees President Prabowo Subianto's flagship free-meal programme, to suspend kitchens allegedly linked to the latest poisoning outbreaks.

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