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Menu Served at Sidoarjo School Meal Program Suspected in Mass Santri Poisoning
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Menu Served at Sidoarjo School Meal Program Suspected in Mass Santri Poisoning

From CNN Indonesia · () Indonesian

Translated from Indonesian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

At a glance

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  • A total of 431 students at Manbaul Hikam Islamic boarding school in Sidoarjo, East Java, fell ill after eating meals provided through Indonesia's free nutritious meal program.
  • The menu included white rice, scrambled eggs, Balinese-style tempeh, stir-fried baby corn and green beans, and an apple; one student said the vegetables tasted sour.
  • Authorities said 19 educational institutions were affected, denied reports of deaths, suspended the suspected catering unit and sent food samples for laboratory testing.

The vegetables tasted sour. By late afternoon, 15-year-old SZ was nauseated, weak and dizzy after eating a free nutritious meal at Manbaul Hikam Islamic boarding school in Sidoarjo, East Java.

I ate the MBG meal at 1 p.m. The food was white rice, scrambled eggs, tempeh prepared in a Balinese-style sauce, and it was not spicy.

— SZThe 15-year-old student described the meal she ate before developing symptoms.

SZ said she ate the meal at about 1 p.m. on Tuesday. The menu consisted of white rice, scrambled eggs, tempeh prepared in a Balinese-style sauce, stir-fried baby corn and green beans, and an apple. She did not finish the vegetables because they tasted unusual. "I did not finish the vegetables because they tasted sour," she said at Sidoarjo's RT Notopuro Regional Hospital.

A total of 431 students at the boarding school reportedly suffered poisoning symptoms after eating the meal. Abdul Wahid Harun, a caretaker at Manbaul Hikam, said all students had consumed food prepared by the Kalitengah Food and Nutrition Fulfillment Service, known as SPPG, in Tanggulangin district.

I did not finish the vegetables because they tasted sour.

— SZShe explained what seemed unusual about the food.

The boarding school said it did not operate the SPPG and only received the meals. "The SPPG is not run by the boarding school. It comes from the Kalitengah SPPG, and we only receive the benefit. It is not true that the SPPG is located at the boarding school," Abdul said.

The SPPG is not run by the boarding school. It comes from the Kalitengah SPPG, and we only receive the benefit. It is not true that the SPPG is located at the boarding school.

— Abdul Wahid HarunThe boarding school caretaker said the catering unit was operated separately.

Emil Elestianto Dardak, East Java's deputy governor and head of the provincial task force for the meal program, rejected reports circulating on social media that someone had died. He said 19 educational institutions in Tanggulangin were affected, including high schools, junior high schools, elementary schools and kindergartens. The SPPG, which supplied about 2,800 portions a day, including roughly 1,000 for the boarding school, has stopped operating. The Sidoarjo health service and police collected food samples for laboratory tests.

There are 19 affected educational institutions.

— Emil Elestianto DardakThe East Java deputy governor described the wider scope of the incident.
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Originally published by CNN Indonesia in Indonesian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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