Jakarta, April 16 -- Coordinating Minister for Community Empowerment Muhaimin Iskandar said that the Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) Program is capable of empowering communities down to the grassroots level while strengthening economic resilience.

"The MBG program implementation must be continuously improved and refined so that it leads to the development of an economic ecosystem and supply chain that can give rise to new entrepreneurs, help MSMEs grow, and increasingly diverse and productive local production," he said here on Thursday.

During an event marking one year of the MBG program, Iskandar emphasized that the government also wants to improve the program's quality so that it can be enjoyed evenly by students, including with better me...