These Researchers Reveal Numerous Challenges Towards Sugar Self-Sufficiency Efforts by the government and industry are racing against time to achieve sugar self-sufficiency. Rep: Frederikus Dominggus Bata / Red: Gita Amanda

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BOGOR -- The Indonesian Sugarcane Research Institute (P3GI) assesses that the acceleration of national sugar self-sufficiency faces a number of challenges in 2025–2026. P3GI researcher, Danang Permadhi, conveyed that in the last five years, the trend in national sugar production has remained in deficit, so the target of self-sufficiency in consumption has not been achieved. He revealed that the government and sugar industry players are racing against time to meet the self-sufficiency target. However, on the ground, there are many structural constraints that need to be addressed immediately so that sugarcane productivity can increase significantly. “For this year and next year, we are really challenged. Achieving self-sufficiency in sugar consumption is a major task because production cannot meet demand,” said Danang at the Plantation Industry Panel Discussion in Bogor, quoted on Wednesday (29/10/2025). According to him, the government has been implementing a ...