Prabowo commits to halting leakage of national wealth

Jakarta — President Prabowo Subianto said he is committed to strengthening food sovereignty and halting leakage of national wealth, with several strategic achievements having been reached in his 19 months in office. In a statement released by the Presidential Secretariat in Jakarta, Prabowo said the achievements include realising self-sufficiency in a number of food commodities.

‘We are now self-sufficient in food. We have achieved self-sufficiency in rice and corn; regarding our protein, eggs, chicken, meat we have not yet reached. We have been working on this; perhaps in four or five years we will achieve meat self-sufficiency. Our food security is relatively secure,’ Prabowo said as he witnessed a large prawn harvest at the Budi Daya Udang Berbasis Kawasan (BUBK) shrimp farming area in Kebumen, Central Java, on Saturday.

The President assessed that these achievements are important amid a world atmosphere now filled with conflicts and geopolitical uncertainty. ‘In the world there are many disputes now, wars everywhere. We are grateful to the Almighty that we are not involved, but we must stay vigilant. We must have strength; that is why we are building our defence to safeguard our wealth,’ he said.

In addition to food security and defence, Prabowo stressed the importance of independently managing national wealth in line with the mandate of the 1945 Constitution, which states that Indonesia’s natural resources must be used to the greatest extent for the people’s interests.

‘And now our wealth, we manage ourselves. We do not want our wealth to be continually manipulated by certain people, by certain countries, and we have begun this. We must do this; this is the Constitution’s mandate and it is for the prosperity of all Indonesians, not just a select few,’ the President said.

The President also referred again to his remarks at the DPR plenary session on 20 May 2026 in which he stated that Indonesia possesses great wealth yet still faces issues of leakage of state resources that must be stopped immediately.

‘Indonesia is truly very rich, but too much of our wealth leaks away, and this leakage must be stopped. I am determined; I will work as hard as I can, and with the help of all my aides, we will do whatever is necessary to stop the leakage of the wealth of the Indonesian people,’ the President said.

According to the President, all of these efforts are aimed at ensuring the nation’s wealth truly benefits all Indonesians, not just a small group. Food sovereignty, independently managed natural resources, and stopping leakage of state wealth form the foundations toward a stronger, more sovereign and prosperous Indonesia.