Health experts on Monday urged the Indonesian government to suspend its program of free school meals after hundreds of children became sick from eating tainted food.

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto made a nationwide free school lunch program one of the centerpieces of his election campaign, even though Indonesia’s shaky economy was already groaning beneath the weight of gigantic government spending, with high unemployment eating away at the tax base.

Supporters of the school lunch program said it was more urgently needed than ever because unemployment was rising and huge numbers of formerly middle-class Indonesians were slipping into…

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