Indonesian officials to eat humbly

Indonesia has ordered officials to eat local street food at meetings instead of fancy foreign fare and stop holding lavish parties, in the latest moves by the new government to crack down on bureaucratic excess.

Snacks such as cassava, steamed corn and yam cakes should be served at official gatherings, and the number of guests invited to high-ranking bureaucrats' parties should be limited to 400, a minister said.

President Joko Widodo, who took office last month and is known as a modest figure from a humble background, has made reining in official spending and trimming the graft-ridden nation's bloated bureaucracy a key goal.