The government needs to have a new strategy and policy for rice amidst the efforts to maintain prices at the farm and consumer levels as well as maintain food stocks.

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 government will import 200,000 tonnes of rice by the end of 2022 so that it will have sufficient rice reserves to effectively intervene in the market.

Pasawahan village residents mostly work as farmhands. They think it is unnecessary to get a good education in order to become farm workers. Not only is it a waste of time, it also needs funding.

Bulog was formed on May 10, 1967 with the aim of safeguarding these three things when Indonesian underwent a food shortage.

The supply availability and price stabilization (KPSH) program is the largest (distribution) channel. Within a year, the free distribution for KPSH can reach 600,000 tons.

We should feel lucky to have high capacity in the production of foodstuffs, human resources to produce, and have rich natural resources, in addition to a very large market.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, each hectare only received six sacks of subsidized fertilizer. Thus, Jufri had no choice but to buy eight sacks of non-subsidized fertilizer, which cost 300 percent more.