{
  "id": 5377821,
  "title": "Around 2,000 fall ill in Indonesia after eating free school meals",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/around-2-000-fall-ill-in-indonesia-after-eating-free-school-meals",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-03T17:43:32.000Z",
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Around 2,000 students and teachers across Indonesia have fallen ill with food poisoning over the past three days linked to the government’s free school meals programme. The meals, provided through a multibillion-dollar scheme called the Makan Bergizi Gratis (MBG) programme, have been the suspected source of a string of mass food poisonings. The programme, one of President Prabowo Subianto’s signature policies, aims to improve nutrition for Indonesia’s schoolchildren but has been dogged by allegations of corruption and criticism of its cost.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "DW English (Top Stories)",
        "title": "Indonesia: Thousands fall sick from free school meals",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/indonesia-thousands-fall-sick-from-free-school-meals",
        "published": "2026-09-03T17:59:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}