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This study examines how online news media frame Indonesia’s Makan Bergizi Gratis (MBG) program, focusing on policy readiness and acceleration, food safety and kitchen oversight, and governance, budget, and efficiency. Using a qualitative comparative framing analysis, the study analyzes a purposive sample of 24 news articles published by seven outlets: BeritaJakarta, Poskota, Kompas.com, detik.com, Tempo, ANTARA Jawa Barat, and Pikiran Rakyat. Robert N. Entman’s four framing functions problem definition, causal interpretation, moral evaluation, and treatment recommendation guide the analysis. The working coding matrix assigns 10 articles to Policy Readiness and Acceleration, four to Food Safety Crisis and Kitchen Oversight, and 10 to Governance, Budget, and Efficiency. The findings suggest that coverage does not fall into a simple positive-versus-negative divide. Instead, the articles emphasize different dimensions of implementation: operational preparedness and adaptation, risks and oversight, or public accountability and fiscal/administrative arrangements. The regional comparison is cautious because many articles address national policy rather than events clearly located in Jakarta or West Java. The study contributes a cross-outlet synthesis of MBG framing while acknowledging that purposive sampling does not establish the prevalence of frames across all coverage or the effects of news framing on public opinion.
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