Video: Prabowo's Ambition to Achieve Self-Sufficiency in Rice, Salt, Sugar, and Corn by 2027
CNBC Indonesia hosted the Food Summit 2026 “Indonesia Food Safety Urgency: Towards a New Policy Framework”, aimed at fostering shared understanding, strengthening synergy among stakeholders, and formulating strategic recommendations to bolster the national food security and quality system.
Special Staff to the Minister for Digital Transformation and Inter-Agency Relations, Bara Krishna Hasibuan, at the Food Summit 2026, outlined the government’s steps to ensure food stock security and price stability amid global turbulence.
The government is promoting the production of key food commodities with a target of achieving self-sufficiency in four commodities by 2027, namely rice, salt, sugar, and corn. Facing global tensions, the government is wary of the impact of wars on imported food commodities such as wheat and soybeans related to the world supply chain.
In addition to direct food imports, the government is also monitoring fertiliser raw materials affected by war turbulence, particularly phosphate, sulphur, and potassium, so efforts are underway to find substitutes that can be produced domestically.
Regarding national fertiliser production amid the Middle East war, the Operations Director of PT Pupuk Indonesia (Persero), Dwi Satriyo Annurogo, stated that Pupuk Indonesia’s current production is 14.8 million tonnes to support domestic food production, namely urea and NPK.
For urea fertiliser, the raw material comes from domestic natural gas with a production target of 7.8 million tonnes, while the need is only 6.3 million tonnes, so the surplus can be exported to Australia. However, for NPK fertiliser, the special raw material sulphur relies on Gulf countries, so it will be replaced with sulphuric acid from Freeport and Aman Mineral.
From the American Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia, AmCham Indonesia Managing Director Donna Priadi revealed the impact of geopolitical and global economic turbulence on Indonesia-US trade as it disrupts logistics and the global supply chain.
Indonesian entrepreneurs face challenges and supply disruptions related to logistics costs and permits, so government support is hoped for in terms of regulatory certainty and supporting the investment climate.
For more details, watch the dialogue between Andi Shalini and Special Staff to the Minister for Digital Transformation and Inter-Agency Relations, Bara Krishna Hasibuan, as well as Operations Director of PT Pupuk Indonesia (Persero), Dwi Satriyo Annurogo, and AmCham Indonesia Managing Director Donna Priadi at the Food Summit 2026, CNBC Indonesia (Monday, 20/04/2026)