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Indonesia Tests AI CCTV Monitoring in About 70 Free Meal Kitchens
Indonesia’s National Nutrition Agency is testing AI-linked CCTV in about 70 free-meal kitchens.
The cameras are intended to help monitor whether staff follow procedures for preparing food, handling it and washing serving trays.
The system would connect cameras already installed in the kitchens to a central monitoring hub, avoiding the need for large-scale purchases of new equipment.
The agency hopes the monitoring will identify procedural breaches and help improve kitchen practices.
It is considering limited access to footage for school principals, teachers or parents, but says security concerns must be weighed because unrestricted viewing could reveal kitchen layouts.
The agency already offers a service showing meal menus, nutrition information and which kitchen prepared food for a school, while the CCTV trial is intended to add oversight of kitchen operations.
Indonesia’s National Nutrition Agency is testing AI-linked CCTV monitoring in about 70 kitchens preparing free nutritious meals.
The system is intended to check whether kitchens follow operating procedures, including food preparation and cleaning.
The agency plans to connect cameras already installed in kitchens rather than buy large numbers of new devices.
Officials are considering limited CCTV access for school principals, teachers or parents, while weighing security concerns.
- Who
- Indonesia’s National Nutrition Agency, led by Sudaryono, is conducting the pilot.
- What
- It is testing AI-linked CCTV to monitor kitchens’ compliance with operating procedures.
- When
- The pilot was described on October 19; the article was published October 20, 2026.
- Where
- About 70 free nutritious meal kitchens in Indonesia.
- Why
- To strengthen oversight of the meal program and identify breaches of operating procedures.
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Sudaryono described the CCTV integration pilot during a presentation in Jakarta.
CNN Indonesia published its report on the pilot.
- Pilot sites
- About 70 kitchens
- Agency
- Indonesia’s National Nutrition Agency
- Monitoring technology
- AI-linked CCTV
- Existing equipment
- Cameras already installed in the kitchens
- Potential viewers
- School principals, teachers and students’ parents
What people are saying
We are trying to integrate CCTV. All the kitchens already have CCTV, but the footage has not been monitored internally, so we are piloting it in around 70 kitchens.
We hope access can be given to certain people, such as school principals, teachers or students’ parents.
I strongly support it. The point is that we want to open things as widely as possible so the public can participate in monitoring the program.