A post by @FirstSquawk on X.

Indonesia’s free meals programme recorded 173.2 trillion rupiah in expenditure from January through October, according to a First Squawk post. The figure captures total spending over the ten-month period on the government’s flagship food initiative. The scale of the outlay matters for Indonesia’s fiscal position, as it represents a substantial claim on the budget in a single year. Watch next for how the programme’s run-rate affects the full-year deficit and whether the government adjusts allocations for the remaining months.