Nearly 2,000 people, most of them students, fell ill in suspected food poisoning outbreaks linked to president Prabowo Subianto ’s flagship free school meals programme, officials said on Saturday.
The incidents, reported between Tuesday and Thursday in East Java, Central Java, West Sumatra, Aceh and South Sulawesi, affected about 1,950 students, teachers and Islamic boarding school pupils who became sick after consuming meals distributed under the government programme, known by its Indonesian acronym MBG.
