JAKARTA — Indonesia wants local tech startups to play a key role in the incoming administration's nationwide free school lunch program, with some companies already looking to expand their businesses by participating in the billion-dollar project.
President-elect and Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, who will replace incumbent leader Joko Widodo in October, has pledged to provide free lunches and milk to 78.5 million students in nearly 400,000 schools across the country in a bid to reduce malnutrition and stunting in the run-up to February's presidential election. growth among children.