Kadin Advocates Balanced Approach on Feed Wheat Import Policy

Jakarta (ANTARA) - Vice Chairman of the Industry Sector of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin), Saleh Husin, has urged the government to implement a balanced approach in feed wheat import policies to maintain supply stability.

In a statement in Jakarta on Tuesday, Saleh explained that the policy of centralising feed wheat imports through State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) under Minister of Trade Regulation Number 11/2026 can be understood as a government step to strengthen control over the supply and prices of strategic commodities.

He assessed that this scheme enables more coordinated import management, helps dampen global supply volatility, and positions state-owned enterprises as stabilisation instruments in supporting national food security and industrial policies.

Nevertheless, Saleh emphasised that the policy’s implementation needs to be designed proportionally to still consider the needs of the livestock industry as the main user of feed wheat.

According to him, an adaptive policy formulation is important so that the goal of maintaining supply stability can run in tandem with the sustainability of businesses in the national livestock and food industry sectors.

Previously, the Ministry of Trade (Kemendag) issued a new regulation through Minister of Trade Regulation (Permendag) Number 11 of 2026, which regulates the import of several agricultural commodities to support the food self-sufficiency programme.

Minister of Trade Budi Santoso stated that the regulation was promulgated on 24 April 2026 and takes effect on 8 May 2026.

These commodities include feed wheat, soybean meal, mung beans, peanuts, feed rice (included in the rice commodity group), and pears (included in the horticulture group).

With the addition of the scope of this regulation, Budi said, importers are required to meet the import approval (PI) requirements from Kemendag based on technical recommendations from the Ministry of Agriculture.