At a trade conference in Jakarta this week, all eyes were on Indonesia's multi-billion-dollar plan to provide school students with free lunches and milk.
One of the key policies for Indonesia 's president-elect, Prabowo Subianto, is to provide free lunches and milk to Indonesia n school students.Dairy Australia's Charlie McElhone was in Jakarta this week and said the school lunch proposal would see milk required for 83 million school children.
He said Indonesia was already Australia's third-largest export market for dairy, worth about $130 million a year. "There's an air of excitement around this particular policy, especially from the dairy industry," he said.
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