November 20, 2025 | 12:53 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The head of the National Nutrition Agency, Dadan Hindayana, reveals the plan to export waste cooking oil, or used cooking oil, to Singapore. The used oil will come from Indonesia's free nutritious meal (MBG) program.
According to Dadan, Singapore Airlines is interested in purchasing the used cooking oil produced by MBG's Nutrition Fulfillment Service Units (SPPGs).
The BGN head said each public kitchen uses about 800 liters of cooking oil per month, 70 percent of which becomes waste cooking oil. Therefore, the used oil will be utilized as an export commodity, including to Singapore.
"The waste oil is not discarded, but collected by entrepreneurs and exported at twice the price, since one of the users is Singapore Airlines," said Dadan at the Ministry of National Development Planning Office, Jakarta, on Wednesday, November 19, 2025.
As an environmentally conscious airline that uses bioavtur, Singapore Airlines, Dadan said, uses waste cooking oil to make fuel. He saw economic potential from the hundreds of liters of used oil produced by free nutritious meal kitchens.
"With 30 thousand SPPGs and 550 liters of used oil produced by each of them, just how many millions of liters per month can be used for bioavtur?" said the lecturer from the Bogor Agricultural Institute.
He reported that currently, 15,363 SPPGs have been established, spread across 7,022 sub-districts, in 509 regencies, spread across 38 provinces in Indonesia. Dadan believes that the number of MBG recipients has reached 44.3 million people.
He argued that President Prabowo Subianto's priority program is not only beneficial to millions of beneficiaries but also has a positive impact on the Indonesian population. These benefits manifest in job creation and bolstering the values of local agricultural and livestock production.
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