Indonesia Pilots Loka MBG Procurement System in 40 Kitchens Ahead of January Rollout
The BGN–Education Ministry platform is live in a 40-kitchen pilot with about 200 registered suppliers, targeting all 26,700 program kitchens from January 2027.
Indonesia's National Nutrition Agency and the Education Ministry have moved the Loka MBG procurement platform from plan to active pilot: 40 SPPG kitchens are operating on the system and roughly 200 suppliers are registered, with some officials citing a queue of up to 400. A technical soft launch took place on 30 October under a cooperation agreement between the two institutions, which adopted the SIPLah e-procurement framework. A grand launch is scheduled for December, with implementation across all 26,700 MBG kitchens targeted for January 2027.
The pilot phase puts the first cohort of supplier cooperatives and farmer associations under verified-supplier requirements months before the national rollout, making onboarding documentation the near-term operational focus of the program's digital supply chain.