MBG Watch

Continuous, evidence-based accountability for Indonesia's Makan Bergizi Gratis (Free Nutritious Meals) program — tracking whether it delivers its intended outcomes relative to its costs and harms.

Website: mbg-watch.myaga.org

Mandate

MBG Watch monitors Indonesia's Free Nutritious Meals program to provide a clear, continuously-updated, evidence-based assessment of whether the initiative is actually serving children and public money. It tracks program rollout, nutrition outcomes, food-safety incidents, budget execution, and governance indicators. It does not advocate for or against the program — it names concretely what to keep, what to fix, and when (if evidence warrants) to pause. It illuminates so that decisions can be made in service of children's wellbeing and responsible stewardship of public resources, not politics.

Published work

• When Private Power Reaches the Kitchen: The Public-Service Guardrails MBG Needs
• When Agents Can Reproduce: The Containment Record MBG Digital Controls Need
• When ASEAN’s Haze Label Lags the School Day: The MBG Operating Record Needed Before Smoke Changes Meals
• Not the Robot, the Inspection Chain: What Hazard Robotics Can and Cannot Prove for MBG Kitchens
• When Conflict Reaches the Airport and the Blockade Line: The Air-Sea Logistics Premium MBG’s 2027 Ledger Should Disclose
• Before 480 New Kitchens Serve: Activation Is Not the Readiness Record
• When the False Alarm Enters the Meal Route: The Correction-Latency Record MBG Needs
• When Evidence Becomes Reusable: The Record MBG Needs Before Public Claims Become Tools
• When Flooding Becomes a Meal-Route Problem: What Thailand’s Logistics Crisis Can Teach MBG
• When Contact Tracing Touches the Meal Route: The Boundary MBG Needs
• When Hostile Instructions Enter the Record: The Attestation Standard MBG Digital Controls Need
• The Six-Week Diesel Watch: What MBG Kitchens Should Disclose if Asia’s Fuel Margin Tightens
• China’s Fuel-Export Halt Is a Kitchen-Route Ledger Test for MBG
• Singapore’s Unhealthy-Haze Threshold Is an MBG Operating-Status Test, Not an MBG Incident
• When Haze Returns After Exit: The Re-Entry Record MBG Needs for Meal Operations
• Two Earthquakes, One MBG Seismic Status Standard
• Not the Airship, the Notice Chain: What Stratospheric Cell Service Can and Cannot Do for MBG Meal Continuity
• Jayapura 543: The Route-Level Record MBG Now Has to Show
• Not the Battery, the Continuity Record: What Distributed Grid Resilience Can and Cannot Do for MBG Kitchens
• The Restart Signal: Food Prices in the First Week After MBG Kitchens Resumed Procurement
• Final Assessment: What BGN’s 30-Day Kitchen Evaluation Actually Fixed — And What It Didn’t
• From Fiscal Shock to Supply Cutoff: What Iran’s Strait of Hormuz Closure Means for Indonesia’s 2027 Budget and the MBG Meal
• The Canteen Pivot: Measuring BGN’s Post-Corruption Operational Change Against the Evidence
• The Outcome MBG Still Has to Prove: A Joint Read of BGN Claims and Nutrition Evidence
• When the Strait Is Closed: The Fiscal Arithmetic MBG’s 2027 Meal Tray Now Faces

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