REPUBLICA.CO.ID, SOLO -- Vice President-elect, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, admitted to studying the free lunch program from India. The country of Bollywood has been implementing programs for these students since 1995.
Gibran said that one of the existing schemes in India could be applied very efficiently to every child or student. Likewise, the characteristics of India are almost the same as Indonesia when judging by the number of inhabitants.
“That Mr. Ambassador said that one head, one child is 11 cents because it is very efficient, the logistics distribution is efficient,” Gibran said when he met at Solo City Hall, Central Java, Tuesday (2/4/2024). He referred to the results of his discussions with Indian Ambassador to Indonesia Shri Sandeep Chakravorty on Monday (1/4/2024).
Gibran is committed to preparing the best possible scheme for the program to work. One of them is grafting or studying a number of countries that have implemented the program from nutritionists to distribution lines.
“Including what kind of effect it has on children, students and then we learn the distribution, what the logistics are like. What kind of kitchen-centric, what kind of nutritionist involvement,” Gibran said.
On Monday, Indian Ambassador Shri Sandeep Chakravorty admitted to discussing the free lunch program when he met Vice President-elect Gibran at Solo City Hall. Shri admitted that TPN representative Prabowo-Gibran had already been sent to India to study the free lunch policy in his country.
“There's a team that's already been fielded to India, to see how India implements that policy. As you know, it became one of his manifestations,” Shri said.
He also said that there are opportunities for cross-sectoral cooperation between India and Indonesia. From healthcare, Jakarta-India direct flights, biotechnology, agriculture, to digital payments.
“We are trying to explore cooperation in health, connectivity, and now there is an Indonesian delegation in India, they are finding out about biotechnology, also about agriculture, digital payments,” he said.
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