Overview

• At a parliamentary hearing, the food and drug agency reported 103 incidents affecting 9,089 children from January to September, surpassing earlier government figures of about 6,000.
• Investigations pointed to meals delivered four hours after cooking, improper ingredient storage and gaps in food-safety knowledge in school kitchens.
• Lawmakers said only 36 of roughly 8,000 kitchens have hygiene and sanitation certification and urged limiting how many students each kitchen serves.
• The National Nutrition Agency apologized for weak oversight as dozens of kitchens were suspended and tests found E. coli, Salmonella and, in one case, glass shards.
• Prabowo rejected calls to pause the programme and ordered sterilizing equipment, water filters, pre-delivery test kits and trained cooks for a scheme serving tens of millions of students.