Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto's ambitious multi-billion dollar programme to provide free meals to more than a quarter of his people was officially underway on Monday, officials said, with 570,000 mouths to feed on its opening day. - BY Reuters JAKARTA, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto's ambitious multi-billion dollar programme to provide free meals to more than a quarter of his people was officially underway on Monday, officials said, with 570,000 mouths to feed on its opening day. Despite being the centrepiece of an election campaign that catapulted Prabowo to
  • @JubilantJaguarEnglish
    3•11 hours ago

    to provide free meals to more than a quarter of his people

    Seems unlikely that the original Reuters source described Indonesians as “his” people. It’s worth noting that Prabowo is an openly authoritarian former general who won the presidential election by posing as a cuddly uncle figure and dancing on TikTok. This looks like good news anyway. If “He” can really improve things and somehow find it in him to leave office when his time is up, then maybe it will be worth it.

  • @rickdgEnglish
    1•15 hours ago

    Does it need to be this whole centralised operation?

    • @GreenAppleTreeEnglish
      10•14 hours ago

      Their new president ran on this platform (and a bunch of other populist stuff, but that’s for another day), so kinda? Also, Education is administered on a federal level, so it makes sense I guess.