Plus they drained the peat bogs for Suharto's Mega Rice fuck up thus massively adding to global warming. Indo rice is crap anyway, all sticky and stodgy. They should at least grow long grain. Or

teh rice self-sufficiency fetish seems common in asia. perhaps it can be traced back to when famines were more common in these parts. what ever the reason, indonesian farmers are not very good at rice growing.

"Self-sufficiency in food production as a manifestation of food resilience is of great importance to meet the people`s basic necessities, and ensure national economic and political stability," he said. Bollocks, it's just typical Indo rice fetishism.

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