Public discourse surrounding Indonesia’s Makan Bergizi Gratis (MBG) program reflects diverse opinions that have not yet been systematically examined using computational methods. This study addresses that gap by evaluating the effectiveness of static and contextual word embeddings within a Capsule Network (CapsNet) framework for sentiment analysis of MBG-related tweets on Twitter. A total of 7,133 Indonesian-language tweets were collected through web crawling, preprocessed, and manually labeled into positive, neutral, and negative categories. Four embedding techniques—Word2Vec, FastText, ELMo, and IndoBERT—were tested under two preprocessing settings, raw and stemming. The experimental results show that Word2Vec on raw text achieved the highest accuracy of 96.17%, while FastText obtained the best performance on stemmed data with 94.10%. These findings indicate that morphological normalization benefits static and subword-based embeddings, whereas contextual models maintain stable performance without extensive fine-tuning. Overall, this study demonstrates the potential of combining CapsNet with appropriate embedding strategies for Indonesian-language sentiment analysis and provides evidence that natural language processing can support data-driven evaluation of public programs such as MBG.