Obesity in DKI Jakarta runs ahead of the national average in every age group. Among children aged 5 to 12 it reaches 12.7 per cent against a national 7.8 per cent, and among adults over 18 it reaches 31.8 per cent against 23.4 per cent (SKI, 2023). Screening for non-communicable disease risk factors in 2025 put Jakarta’s obesity rate at 26.03 per cent, rising to 35.06 per cent in Kepulauan Seribu.

CISDI, working with the DKI Jakarta Provincial Health Office, assessed nine canteen locations across schools, offices, health facilities, and other public facilities in the city. The assessment combined visitor consumption surveys, laboratory testing of food samples by LABKESDA, and direct observation of canteen practice. Every visitor surveyed drank sweetened beverages at the canteen three to four times a week. A single serving of ayam geprek was found to carry 970 mg of sodium, 60 per cent of the recommended daily intake, and yellow noodles from soto mie tested positive for formalin and borax. Only two of the nine locations sold fresh cut fruit, and only three provided nutrition information that visitors could readily understand.

The brief then maps the regulatory landscape, from Law No. 17/2023 and Government Regulation No. 28/2024 down to Jakarta’s own Gubernatorial Regulation No. 140/2013, which still covers food safety in school canteens alone. It identifies four implementation risks with mitigation steps, from cross-sector coordination to food industry intervention, and closes with nine recommendations: expanding the Healthy Canteen area to educational institutions, offices, health facilities, and other public facilities; establishing four pillars of success indicators covering nutritional standards, food safety, the food environment, and governance; introducing a tiered classification of canteens; restricting the advertising, promotion, and sponsorship of products high in sugar, salt, and fat; and securing cross-sector budget commitments in Jakarta’s 2027 planning cycle and beyond.