Indonesia’s free meals corruption probe extends to police, military officers

A corruption investigation into Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship free meals programme has widened after prosecutors named an active police brigadier general as a suspect and referred a case involving a military officer to the country’s military crimes unit.The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) on Thursday identified Lalu Muhammad Iwan Mahardan, a police brigadier general who serves as deputy secretary for promotion and cooperation at the National Nutrition Agency, as the seventh suspect in a governance inquiry into the meals programme.Separately, prosecutors said they found alleged involvement of an active-duty military officer in a procurement of electric motorcycles for the programme that they said was carried out unlawfully. They referred the case to the military crimes unit for a joint civilian-military investigation.