# More than 500 Indonesian students hospitalised after eating state-supplied meals

https://mins.news/en/item/42467

- Al Jazeera, 2026-09-02 17:37 UTC
- Health
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/9/2/over-500-students-hospitalised-after-eating-state-supplied-meals-in-indones?traffic_source=rss

> More than 500 students in Indonesia were hospitalised with food poisoning on Tuesday, suspected to have been caused by free meals supplied by the government. Thousands of cases have been linked to the $4.3bn programme launched last year.

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