Main food of Indonesian, from Sumatra to Papua, from north to south. Another Indonesian may be eat corn, wheat, sago such as maluku, sulawesi or even papua, but, rice is the most popular among Indonesian.but know....
the availability of rice depend on farmer and farm (or Paddy field) it self. the farmer become losses, and the area of farm also. Conversation of form into another thing become unpredictable and fast, become property, market, or something else. the amount of farmer in Indonesia only 55,1 % (Kompas, 2/5/09) as the results the production are lackdown, in the end.. domestic product of rice become rare and it must import to fulfill it.
Become Major Issue..
In few month, indonesia have General Election (GE, for Precident, House of Representatives and Senator), and again, rice as political issue to gain or persuade people to elect. Every political party give promise that they will resolve the problem, ended the import of rice and also increasing the income of Indonesian farmer..!!.
in my opinion....
Farmer and farm, it must giving more protection from globalization. Area of farm should be maintenance for sustainability production. Stop diversion of farm into another thing. Give more free fertilizer for farmer. Stop the marked-oriented policy for rice, change into half close-oriented, so the price of rise can high, and give more subsidize for farmer.
BULOG (Badan Logistik or Indonesian Bureau of Logistic) should more concern to help farmer, to deals the price control of rice and other foods. Half close-oriented, its make farmer can survive from falling down, WTO deals are killing machine for Indonesian farmer. They force to Indonesian farmer to not accept subsidize more, how come like that..!!. They will die, since price for fertilizer, seeds or even land-rent are too high. Half close-oriented is to maintenance the price normal or even high with government policy.
in my opinion....
Farmer and farm, it must giving more protection from globalization. Area of farm should be maintenance for sustainability production. Stop diversion of farm into another thing. Give more free fertilizer for farmer. Stop the marked-oriented policy for rice, change into half close-oriented, so the price of rise can high, and give more subsidize for farmer.
BULOG (Badan Logistik or Indonesian Bureau of Logistic) should more concern to help farmer, to deals the price control of rice and other foods. Half close-oriented, its make farmer can survive from falling down, WTO deals are killing machine for Indonesian farmer. They force to Indonesian farmer to not accept subsidize more, how come like that..!!. They will die, since price for fertilizer, seeds or even land-rent are too high. Half close-oriented is to maintenance the price normal or even high with government policy.
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2 comments:
Maybe they should do like Japan. Japanese has a monopoly on rice. Nothing but Japanese rice is sold in Japan and imported rice like basmati is highly unpopular and expensive
What I see lately in Indonesia, rice become the most popular campaign tool ..
Anyway, may family have our own rice production. I mean, my father plants rice as a hobby, and can fulfill my familiy's need for years ..
There's an idea, what if every family have their own rice farm ..??
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