Saturday 17 February 2007

Dedi J Chandra
Media Team of Department of Agriculture

Flood in Jakarta
Business activity
The flood impacts
Flood in West Java, Kalimantan, southern Sumatera
Pessimism of rice harvest
Andalan Naional Farmer Contact (KTNA) assign the need of rice import
Logistic Business Council (Bulog)
Rice for the poor (Raskin)
Market operation (OP)
Great harvest
Fail harvest
The rise of rice price
Rice import is like opium for the Indonesian bureaucracy
Panick government
Tuesday meeting (13 February 2007), Vice President Jusuf Kalla decide to importing rice again as many as 500 thousand ton
Don’t take any risk
Minister of Agriculture tend to reject the rice import policy
Contra-productive steps taken by government
Arya Bima, Member of Parliament Commission IV of People Representative
Food plant
Wet rice field
Indonesian rice surplus in number
Excellent  rice seed subsidy programme
Rice hybrid plantation
New rice field
Post-crop losses
Research results of R & D Council of Department of Agriculture
Improvement of seeds
Improvement of fertilization ways
Improvement of land management technique
Increasing producticity
Better way to crop
Social function of BULOG
Price disparity
Profit from rice import for BULOG and importer
Interest logics
Import from Vietnam
Profit margin 675 billion dollar rupiahs for 500 thousand ton rice import
1.3 trillion rupiahs for 1 million ton
Inflation rate
Statistic of poor number

Original source: Rice Import (Politics) “Opium”