April 16, 2026 | 03:05 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia's Ministry of Health has issued regulations regarding the inclusion of nutritional labels in the form of nutri-level for ready-to-eat food, especially sweetened beverages. This policy will be applied to large-scale businesses.
The regulation is stipulated in the Decree of the Minister of Health (KMK) Number HK.01.07/MENKES/301/2026 concerning the inclusion of nutritional labels and health messages for ready-to-eat food, issued on Tuesday, April 14, 2026.
Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin stated that this policy is an educational effort to prevent excessive consumption of sugar, salt, and fat (SSF). The aim is to prevent various non-communicable diseases, including obesity, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes.
"Therefore, efforts need to be made through information and education so that the public can more easily choose the right and healthy ready-to-eat food according to their needs," Budi said in an official statement from the Government Communication Bureau on Thursday, April 16, 2026.
Four diseases impose the largest burden on the Indonesian Social Security Agency (BPJS) related to excessive SSF consumption. For example, the financing burden for kidney failure increased by more than 400 percent to Rp13.38 trillion in 2025 from only Rp2.32 trillion in 2019.
Budi added that this policy is also part of the mandate of the Health Law to ensure that all cross-sector disease prevention policies can run in harmony.
"The Health Law mandates that cross-sector policies be harmonized. The Ministry of Health is responsible for regulating ready-to-eat food, while processed food or manufactured products fall under the authority of the National Agency of Drug and Food Control (BPOM)," he said.
At this initial stage, this policy does not target small and medium-scale ready-to-eat businesses such as street food stalls, food carts, and small or simple restaurants. However, Budi did not specify when small-scale businesses will be required to include nutritional labels.
He stated that ready-to-eat, sweetened beverages produced by large-scale businesses, such as boba, pulled tea, palm sugar coffee, and juice, are required to include nutritional labels and health messages in the form of nutri-level, which are listed in informational media. Information media includes listings on menus, retail packaging, brochures, banners, leaflets, and menu lists in commercial electronic applications.
The nutri-level consists of:
- Level A combined with dark green color;
- Level B combined with light green color;
- Level C combined with yellow color; or
- Level D combined with red color.
Level A has lower SSF content compared to level B, level B has lower SSF content than level C, and so on.
Businesses are included in the nutri-level program based on their self-declaration of SSF content, as determined by government or other accredited laboratory tests.
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