Health & Education

September 2025

News/Indonesia
CNN Indonesia – September 28, 2025

Jakarta – A number of press organisations have strongly criticised the actions of the Presidential Secretariat's Press, Media and Information Bureau (BPMI) for revoking the Palace press credentials of CNN Indonesia journalist Diana Valencia after she asked President

News/Indonesia
CNN Indonesia – September 27, 2025

Tanjungpinang – A letter signed by a school principle agreeing to keep quiet about food poisoning incidents in the Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) program has gone viral on social media.

News/Indonesia
CNN Indonesia – September 26, 2025

Yogyakarta – Hundreds of mothers held a symbolic action by banging cooking utensils as a form of protest against the implementation of the Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) program which has recently resulted in thousands of school children suffering food poisoning.

News/Indonesia
CNN Indonesia – September 25, 2025

Yogyakarta – The Gajah Mada University (UGM) Student Executive Council Community of Students (BEM KM) is urging the government to totally re-evaluate the free nutritional meal (MBG) program which is a flagship project of President Prab

News/Indonesia
CNN Indonesia – September 23, 2025

Jakarta – The MBG Monitoring Coalition is asking the government to halt the implementation of the Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) program and then take steps to fully evaluate President Prabowo Subianto's ambitious program.

August 2025

News/Indonesia
CNN Indonesia – August 18, 2025

Jakarta – The government will allocate approximately 44 percent of its 2026 education budget to the Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) program. President Prabowo Subianto has announced a budget allocation of 335 trillion rupiah for the MBG program in 2026.

June 2025

News/Indonesia
Kompas.com – June 20, 2025

Kiki Safitri, Robertus Belarminus, Jakarta – Deputy Social Affairs Minister (Wamensos) Agus Jabo Priyono has stressed that the involvement of the Indonesian Military (TNI) in the People's School principals retreat is not a form of militarisation of education.

May 2025

Statements/Indonesia
Amnesty Statement – May 30, 2025

Responding to the Constitutional Court (MK) ruling ordering state administrators to make all schools, both private and public, free of charge up to the elementary education level, Amnesty International Indonesia Deputy Director Wirya Adiwena sa

News/Indonesia
CNN Indonesia – May 7, 2025

Jakarta – National University (Unnas) historian Andi Achdian is questioning the government's decision through the Ministry of Culture to revise the history of the Republic of Indonesia.

News/Indonesia
Kompas.com – May 7, 2025

Nawir Arsyad Akbar, Jakarta – Human Rights Minister Natalius Pigai will propose that the military education program initiated by West Java Governor Dedi Mulyadi to the Minister of Primary and Secondary Education (Mendikdasmen) Abdul Mu'ti.