More than 360 hit by food poisoning after eating free school meal in Indonesian town

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More than 360 people fell ill in Indonesia's town of Sragen in Central Java after consuming school lunches, an official said on Thursday (Aug 14), in the largest food poisoning case to hit President Prabowo Subianto's flagship free meals programme.   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/4wdxchn9   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00More than 360 people have fallen ill in the central Java town of Sragen after consuming

00:07school lunches, an official said on Thursday.

00:10It is the largest food poisoning case to hit President Prabowo Subianto's flagship free

00:15meal program since its launch in January.

00:18Sragen government chief Sigit Pamungkas said 365 people were affected, and a food sample

00:25is now being tested in a laboratory.

00:27The government has pledged to cover any medical treatment if needed.

00:31Among the victims were 13-year-old Lebiba Fathen Marzuko and 14-year-old Wisdan Rido Abhimanyu,

00:38who both described suffering severe stomach pain.

00:41I'm still sick in the stomach.

00:43At night it's like a pain in the stomach.

00:48It's like a pain in the stomach.

00:53I don't know if it's a food poisoning.

00:56I don't know.

00:57The suspected contaminated lunch included turmeric rice, omelet ribbons, fried tempeh,

01:01cucumber, and lettuce salad, sliced apple, and a box of milk, all prepared for the

01:20central kitchen and delivered to several schools.

01:34Authorities say kitchen standards have been tightened following previous incidents, but

01:38the free meals program continues to expand, already serving more than 15 million recipients,

01:44with a target of 83 million by year's end.

01:51most of the time.

01:52First of all, you have to look at home.

01:53This is a good question.

01:55Well, what do you think about this?

01:56How about you?

01:57Now, you see, the people in the stomach are not fertile.

01:58You have to sit down and look at them.

02:00What do you think about this?

02:01You have to go as a bite?

02:03What do you think about this is that you can expect.

02:05You have to do that to help this man.

02:06You have to do the same thing.

02:07It's gonna stay in the shop and look at the place.

02:08Here, you can see.

02:09How about you?

02:10This has to be an infection.

02:11This is the same thing.

02:11I'm gonna try and understand this man.

02:11You're gonna stay in the body.

02:12You have to be an infection.

02:14I hope that you have to be vaccinated,

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