Yuni Rohmawati, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto plans to build warehouses and cold storage in every village as a medium-term anticipatory measure to store the community's agricultu

Jakarta – One characteristic of policies from the Prabowo Subianto administration is that they have grandeur but are hollow.

Anastasya Lavenia Y, Jakarta – Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto claims that the plan to increase import of food from the United States will not

Alfitria Nefi P, Jakarta – The Center of Economic and Law Studies (Celios) has assessed that implementing President Prabowo Subianto's food self-sufficiency program has harmed the envir

Tri Listiyarini, Jakarta – Indonesia is on track to achieve a rice surplus of up to 12 million tons this year, bolstering its ambition to become a major player in the global rice export

Indonesia, West Papua – In a controversial move, the Indonesian National Police (Polri) launched a large-scale corn cultivation project targeting 1.7 million hectares of land across the

Harumbi Prastya Hidayahningrum, Majalengka – President Prabowo Subianto has promised to provide 1,000 owls to farmers as a natural solution to combat rat infestations in agricultural ar

Han Revanda, Jakarta – House of Representatives Commission IV Chairperson Siti Hediati Hariyadi, better known as Titiek Soeharto, has raised concerns over last year's imported rice stoc

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Juan Ardya Guardiola, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto's goal of setting up tens of thousands of village-level cooperatives aims to stabilize food prices by cutting the middlemen ou

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Indonesia is currently developing modern farming clusters across the country to boost domestic supplies and eventually become a global food barn.

Han Revanda, Jakarta – Tommy Andana, Expert Staff of Business Climate and Market Security at the Ministry of Trade, revealed that importers have yet to realize the import quota for garl

Dinda Shabrina, Jakarta – The Rp10.28 trillion budget reduction for the Ministry of Agriculture may hinder efforts to achieve national food self-sufficiency, Minister Amran Sulaiman sta

Faisal Maliki Baskoro, Denpasar – The palm oil industry faces mounting challenges from climate change, with prolonged droughts and rising temperatures threatening yields in major produc

Faisal Maliki Baskoro, Denpasar – Climate change is putting the future of palm oil production at risk, as extreme heat threatens the survival of Elaeidobius kamerunicus, the primary pol

Faisal Maliki Baskoro, Denpasar – WWF-Indonesia is strengthening its collaboration with the Indonesian government and the palm oil industry to promote sustainable practices, Conservatio

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – The government's decision to halve the budget allocated for the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency or BMKG could have a detrimental effect on

Riani Sanusi Putri, Jakarta – Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto allows imports to meet subsidized fertilizer needs.

Han Revanda, Jakarta – Ishana Mahisa, chairman of the Indonesian Meat Processing Industry Association (Nampa), has criticized the government's decision to transfer 100,000 tons of beef

Aditya Hadi, Jakarta – The government is tightening regulations on right-to-cultivate (HGU) permits for oil palm plantations, requiring applicants to allocate 20 percent of their land t

Antara, Aisha Shaidra, Jakarta – Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman said rice production in January-March 2025 is predicted to increase by 50 percent.

Bella Evanglista Mikaputri, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto announced on Wednesday that Indonesia will no longer rely on imports for key food commodities, including rice, corn, and

Dian Yuanita Wulandari, Jakarta – As Indonesia faces the growing challenge of shrinking agricultural land, the government is preparing a policy that will allow the conversion of agricul

Jakarta – Following the failure of its pilot project, the government is actually extending the food estate program in North Sumatra.

Riri Rahayu, Agung Sedayu, Jakarta – Agrarian and Spatial Planning Minister/Head of the National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) Nusron Wahid said there are 854,662 hectares of abandoned land res

The Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) is reminding Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni and President Prabowo Subianto about the Forestry Ministry's plan to open 20 million hectares

Fuad Iqbal Abdullah, Samarinda – The East Kalimantan government has turned a former mining area in the provincial capital Samarinda into agricultural land for rice cultivation.

Han Revanda, Jakarta - Professor of Bogor Agricultural University or IPB University in Indonesia, Dwi Andreas Santosa, criticized the Prabowo Subianto government's food self-sufficiency

Jakarta – For the first time in history, Indonesia's subsidized fertilizer distribution started on time, precisely on Jan. 1.

Linda Yulisman, Garut (West Java) – A decades-old social forestry scheme where local communities tend to state land mostly for the purpose of conservation has become a key part of the g

Mahmud Ichi, East Halmahera, Indonesia – Halik Fanen and his wife, Fatimun, spent much of the day sifting the couple's inheritance into seven plastic sacks near the east of Indonesia's

Jakarta – The government has allocated 9.55 million tons of subsidized fertilizers worth Rp 46.8 trillion (approximately $2.9 billion) to be distributed across the archipelago next year

Didik Fibrianto, Malang – The Indonesian government plans to halt imports of certain food commodities starting next year to bolster self-sufficiency programs, a senior minister announce

Celvin Moniaga Sipahutar, Jakarta – The Indonesian Coconut Processing Industry Association (HIPKI) is urging the government to implement the coconut downstream policy to tackle the shor

Celvin Moniaga Sipahutar, Jakarta – The coconut processing industry is facing a crisis due to a surge in coconut exports, which has led to a shortage of domestic raw materials.

Rama Sukarta, Jakarta – The free nutritious meal program (MBG) launched under President Prabowo Subianto's administration is expected to boost Indonesia's livestock industry, create new

Alfi Dinilhaq, Jakarta – Indonesia will ban import of sugar starting next year, according to Chief Food Affairs Minister Zulkifli Hasan.

Maria Gabrielle Putrinda, Jakarta – President Prabowo Subianto said that achieving food self-sufficiency is a central strategy for controlling inflation in Indonesia.

Adil Al Hasan, Jakarta – Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/Head of the National Land Agency (ATR/BPN), Nusron Wahid said that his ministry is currently drafting Governme

Celvin Moniaga Sipahutar, Jakarta – Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman has set an ambitious target for Indonesia's rice production, aiming to reach 32 million tons by 2025.

Celvin Moniaga Sipahutar, Jakarta – Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman announced on Tuesday that his office has filed a police complaint against four fertilizer companies accused

Irsyan Hasyim (Kontributor), Jakarta – Indonesian Ministry of Forestry will prepare a social forestry program to support the food self-sufficiency program and the free nutritious meal p

Jakarta – The Indonesian agriculture sector will need massive reforms to make President Prabowo Subianto's dream of food self-sufficiency a reality.

Djibril Muhammad, Banjarmasin – Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman traveled across Kalimantan on Thursday to find new agricultural lands and expand the workforce, especially among

Han Revanda, Jakarta – The Head of the National Food Agency (Bapanas), Arief Prasetyo Adi, has expressed his intention to cease rice imports as early as next year.

Stephen Wright – Indonesia's plan to convert more than two million hectares of conservation and indigenous lands into agriculture will cause long-term damage to the environment, create

Mathias Hariyadi, Jakarta – In the Boyolali region of Central Java, a protest by Indonesian milk producers against the massive importation of the raw material has exploded, and the cont

Alfida Rizky Febrianna, Jakarta – Indonesia continues to rely heavily on imported milk, with about 80% of its dairy needs currently met by imports, compared to just 40 percent in 1997.

Alfida Rizky Febriana, Jakarta – Deputy Minister of Agriculture Sudaryono is ramping up efforts to promote the urban farming concept through the Sustainable Food House Area program.

Oyuk Ivani Siagian, Bali – Eddy Martono, chairman of the Indonesian Palm Oil Association (GAPKI/IPOA), said there has been a According to Eddy's records, as of August 2024, the national