Sugar Self-Sufficiency Rules Controversy

By Editorial Team 04/10/2022
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Summary

The government will issue a Presidential Regulation on the Acceleration of National Sugar Self-Sufficiency, considering the need to accelerate the fulfillment of consumer and industrial sugar through a self-sufficiency program. This regulation also mandates state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to provide sugar through imports.

Sugarcane farmers rejected the bill. Chairman of the Indonesian Sugar Cane Farmers Association (APTRI) Soemitro Samadikoen questioned the government's plan to provide import quotas for white crystal sugar and raw sugar to PT Perkebunan Nusantara III.

According to him, imports make sugarcane farmers lose money. "Who can buy sugar cane if all of them are imported," he said. APTRI Secretary General M. Nur Khabsyin said sugar self-sufficiency is constrained by policies that are not in favor of farmers. "The Cost of Purchase [HPP] of farmers' sugar has never increased from Rp 9,100 per kilogram, though the cost of production [BPP] reaches Rp 12,000," Khabsyin said.

*The Presidential Regulation Bill on the Acceleration of National Sugar Self-Sufficiency can be downloaded below.

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