Jakarta, March 29 -- Indonesia's National Nutrition Agency (BGN) will continue distributing food under the Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) program six days a week to schoolchildren in underdeveloped, frontier, and outermost (3T) regions or those with high stunting prevalence.

BGN Head Dadan Hindayana confirmed this plan in a statement cited here on Sunday amid a discourse on reducing weekly MBG distribution to five times for students in pursuit of budget efficiency.

"MBG will be supplied across six school days, from Monday to Saturday, in 3T regions and those deemed highly vulnerable to stunting. This move is a strategic step toward ensuring that children receive adequate nutrition daily," he said.

With that in view, he emphasized the impo...