The Indonesian government under the leadership of President Prabowo Subianto and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka has launched a Free Bergizi Dining Program (MBG) on January 2, 2025.
This program aims to ensure children, pregnant women, and breastfeeding mothers get nutritious food for free so that it can maintain health and support the development of children to pass top secondary schools (SMA).
In the implementation of this program, the government allocates a budget of Rp171 trillion and targets 82 million beneficiaries of MBG to October 2025.
The officers prepare food into the car to be distributed to the school for the Free Bergizi Dinner program (MBG).
The remaining food of MBG is collected in KTH Laskaru.
But there is a new challenge behind the MBG program, which is the increase in food waste, both from unprocessed food ingredients in the kitchen of the Nutritional Services Unit (SPPG) and from the rest of food that is not consumed by children in the school.
The Provincial Government of Jakarta through the Ministry of Environment (DLH) declared readiness to facilitate waste management of MBG programs focusing on the management of organic waste to environmental sustainability.
The mechanism, organic waste produced from SPPG kitchen and school will be taken by DLH DKI Jakarta officers. The officers first served food waste from SPPG kitchen and school before taken to Reduce Waste Processing Place, Reuse, Recycle (TPS 3R) and distributed to maggot bioconversion or larvae from black soldier fly (BSF).
The cleanser takes the rest of food waste from SPPG Kemang kitchen.
The cleanser takes the rest of food waste from SPPG Kemang kitchen.
Black soldier fly is a species of flies under the Latin name Hermetia illucens whose larvae as an organic waste suppression so that the garbage can be decomposed quickly. This method used in managing organic waste from the remaining MBG foods.
In South Jakarta, the local government cooperated with the Forest Tani Group (KTH) Laskar Krukut Luhur (Laskaru) to manage the remaining cultivation of the MBG program by utilizing the BSF maggot. This initiative not only reduces waste, but also supports environmental sustainability.
“We received organic waste carried by the unit of environmental implementing in South Jakarta area. For the rest of the food it will be smoothed to be more easily decomposed by maggot, the Chairman of KTH Laskaru Rudi.
Petugas carries organic waste for maggot feed in KTH Laskaru.
The work of providing organic waste that has been smoothed to maggot in KTH Laskaru.
Rudi said organic waste carried by DLH officers to KTH Laskaru also makes it easy to meet maggot feed that reaches 700 kilograms to 1 ton per day.
The waste from maggot-maggot it can later be utilized into fertilizers for plants. While an adult maggot, it will be used as feed for animals such as chickens and fish. In addition to beneficial as organic waste decomposition, maggot also has a sell value. Rudi sells maggot-maggot adult Rp5 thousand to Rp8 thousand per kilogram to buyers.
The use of this BSF larvae is one of the efforts of the government handles organic waste problems. Based on the data of the National Garbage Management System, the junk in Jakarta at 2023 reached 3,1 million tons and 49,87 percent of them from the rest of food.
Maggot eats organic waste that has been smoothed in KTH Laskaru.
Lalat Black Soldier Fly (BSF) maggot cultivated in KTH Laskaru power outlet.
With this step the MBG program is expected not only to provide nutritional benefits for beneficiaries, but also contributes to environmental sustainability solutions for surrounding communities through better waste management.
Photo and text : Fauzan
Author : Nyoman Budhiana
The work throws adult maggot worm for fish feed in KTH Laskaru.
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