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Many kitchen owners in remote areas of Indonesia have become trapped in a cycle of debt to banks or loan sharks, after setting up multiple kitchens to support President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship free school meals programme. They are waiting for government reimbursements, but state payments have been cut following corruption allegations.

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