# The incoming 2025 budget keeps free meals at Rp71 trillion under a 3-percent deficit ceiling Date: 2024 ## The fact On 17 October 2024, three days before inauguration, Reuters reported that Prabowo’s free-meals plan sat in the spotlight as the 2025 budget — already passed in September at a 2.53 percent of GDP deficit — included Rp71 trillion for meals for about 20 million students, not the full 83 million path. An aide had said the incoming president would stick to the approved envelope. Later expansion and poisoning are children. ## Context September 2025 budget passage sat as parent. Neighbouring inauguration is three days later. He was president-elect, not yet the budget’s original author, but owned the meals line. Meals launch 2025 is a child. Defence-budget 2025 is a later neighbour that jumped. The President of Indonesia heads the national executive, appoints Cabinet, and is commander-in-chief of the TNI. A former Defense Minister and former Kopassus commander does not write a Komnas HAM report, a Constitutional Court age-rule, or a Chinese SOE nickel smelter by himself. A Komnas HAM finding is not a criminal verdict unless a court so holds. A campaign pledge is not a gazette. ## Evidence and sources Ministry of State Secretariat of Indonesia carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [fiscal-policy sustainability](/drivers/fiscal-policy-sustainability): a completed first-year meals ceiling inside a sub-3-percent deficit budget. ## What is established and what is not Established: mid-October 2024 public record of a Rp71 trillion 2025 meals line inside an already-passed deficit-limited budget, independently reported. Not established: that the full 83 million path was thereby funded that Thursday, or a unique later stunting coefficient from the ceiling. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. His team confirmed they would keep the envelope. Finance scores. BGN later spends.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The incoming 2025 budget keeps free meals at Rp71 trillion under a 3-percent deficit ceiling, not a later speech about The incoming 2025 budget keeps free meals at Rp71 trillion under a 3-percent deficit ceiling. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The incoming 2025 budget keeps free meals at Rp71 trillion under a 3-percent deficit ceiling on 2024-10-17 is not a licence to treat every later Ministry of State Secretariat of Indonesia communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average The incoming 2025 budget keeps free meals at Rp71 trillion under a 3-percent deficit ceiling into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Outgoing government and DPR passed the 2025 budget. His team confirmed they would keep the envelope. Finance scores. BGN later spends. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Prabowo Subianto: https://factrail.ai/people/prabowo-subianto ## Drivers - Fiscal-Policy Sustainability: https://factrail.ai/drivers/fiscal-policy-sustainability - Public-Debt Sustainability: https://factrail.ai/drivers/public-debt-sustainability ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indonesias-free-meals-plan-spotlight-prabowo-readies-office-2024-10-17/ - https://www.setneg.go.id/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/id-prabowo-meals-71t-ceiling-2024