Jakarta, June 12 -- The Coordinating Ministry for Community Empowerment emphasized the importance of targeted distribution for Free Nutritious Meal (MBG) beneficiaries so that it has a real impact on economic empowerment, especially in disadvantaged, frontier, and outermost (3T) areas.

"In improving the management of MBG distribution managed by the National Nutrition Agency (BGN), I remind the authorities to refer to Presidential Instruction 4 of 2025 concerning the National Socioeconomic Single Data (DTSEN)," the Coordinating Minister for Community Empowerment Abdul Muhaimin Iskandar said here on Friday.

"It states that underdeveloped regions with extreme poverty must be prioritized," he added.

Through DTSEN data, the government has a...