Indonesia: After the Food Agency was formed, the Chancellor of IPB advised to imitate Singaporean policies

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has established the National Food Agency (BPN) as stipulated in Presidential Regulation (Perpres) Number 66/2021. Jokowi signed the regulation on July 29, 2021. One of the highlights of BPN is regulating food imports, which has become a habit for decades. IPB University Chancellor Arif Satria assessed that BPN had the spurs to be able to regulate it. That is if you look at Indonesia's abundant resources. He even compared it with Singapore which is a small country but has a big vision in food availability. "Just as an illustration, Singapore has taken a policy of 25%-30% of its food needs to be self-produced in 2030. Singapore does not have land but has tremendous confidence in building a food system to be 30% food self-sufficient," said Arif in the INDEF discussion 'Waiting for a spur National Food Agency', Monday (30/8/2021). The newly formed BPN is responsible for a number of foodstuffs such as rice, corn, soybeans, ...