‘Fix and Repair’ Rice Policy

The government needs to continue to creatively develop balanced policies to suppress inflation and protect consumers, as well as policies that provide incentives for farmers in production activities.

The debates over the rice-import policy heated up again at the end of 2022.

The debate still revolves around an old issue, namely the issue of the accuracy of production and stock data, even though Presidential Regulation No. 32/2022 concerning Commodity Balances, as an implementing regulation for the Job Creation Law in the trade sector, has accommodated the harmonization of commodity data on rice, salt, sugar, beef and fishery products by 2022.