<![CDATA[Indonesia’s Free Nutritious Meals Program (MBG) is a state instrument for fulfilling children’s constitutional rights to survival, growth, health, and adequate nutrition under Articles 28B(2) and 28H(1) of the 1945 Constitution. Its governance is principally regulated by Presidential Regulation No. 115 of 2025, which provides for program risk management, internal financial oversight, procurement, food-safety supervision, and consideration of the best interests of the child. However, the regulation does not yet expressly integrate corruption-specific risk mapping, conflict-of-interest controls, mandatory public disclosure across the supply chain, or child-rights-based remedies into a unified governance framework. This normative gap is constitutionally significant because corruption affecting meal quality, quantity, safety, or continuity may impair the substantive enjoyment of children’s rights. This study employs normative legal research using statutory, conceptual, and functional comparative approaches. China is used as a functional comparator because its 2022 Rural Compulsory Education Student Nutrition Improvement Plan Implementation Measures and 2024 Guidelines on School Food Safety and Meal-Fund Management address comparable risks through tiered responsibility, procurement controls, information disclosure, financial segregation, audit, public supervision, and supplier evaluation. Rather than transplanting these mechanisms, the study assesses their functions, legal bases, operation, and compatibility with Indonesia’s constitutional, administrative, procurement, and anti-corruption framework. The study proposes a child-rights-based anti-corruption governance model linking corruption-risk prevention, supply-chain transparency, conflict-of-interest control, independent oversight, supplier accountability, and rights restoration. Theoretically, the model integrates anti-corruption governance with child-rights obligations; practically, it provides a framework for refining MBG regulation, oversight, and remedies ]]>
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