Rice Harvest From Benny Tjokro's Confiscated Land Can Reach IDR 51.48 Billion Per Year
JAKARTA - The Attorney General's Office (AGO) utilizes confiscated land from the convict in the corruption case Benny Tjokrosaputro to be converted into productive rice fields. This step is an effort by the AGO to strengthen food security.
Deputy Attorney General for Intelligence (Jamintel) Reda Mathovani said the confiscated assets belonging to Benny Tjokrosaputro in the Bekasi Regency area alone reached approximately 330 hectares, consisting of 414 plots of land.
Reda said that of the total confiscated land belonging to Benny Tjokrosaputro, 4 plots of land were used as pilot for the rice planting project, with a construction area of approximately 7 hectares (ha) at Perum Gria Asri, Srimahi Village, North Tambun District, Bekasi Regency.
However, what today's harvest is the Cakra Buana variety with a land area of 2.5 hectares. This type of rice has a shorter harvest age with a potential harvest of 7 to 8 tons per hectare.
"Where this Cakra Buana variety has the potential to produce 7 to 8 tons of harvest per hectare or as much as 32 tons. This means that 2 times the harvest is usually only able to produce approximately 3.5 tons per hectare or as much as 14 tons," he said at Perum Gria Asri, Srimahi Village, Bekasi Regency, West Java, Tuesday, August 19.
Reda said that if all the confiscated land belonging to Benny Tjokro covering an area of 330 hectares was planted with rice, the potential yield could reach 2,640 tons.
"It can be imagined that if all of the 330 hectares of assets in Bekasi Regency are planted with rice, then the potential for harvest can reach 2,640 tons of unhulled rice or Rp. 17.16 billion per 3 months or Rp. 51.48 billion per year," he said.
In the Food Independent Prosecutor's program, he continued, the Attorney General's Office synergizes with the Ministry of Agriculture, PT Pupuk Indonesia, Perum Bulog, and the West Java Provincial Government.
The Ministry of Agriculture, in this case, provides seeds and alsintan to local farmers who work on the land.
Meanwhile, PT Pupuk Indonesia provides subsidized fertilizer and Perum Bulog serves as an offtaker to buy dry grain from farmers' harvest.
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Sebelumnya, Direktur Perum Bulog Ahmad Rizal Ramdhani mengatakan Bulog berkomitmen untuk menyerap seluruh hasil panen program Jaksa Mandiri Pangan ini.
“Alhamdulillah yang 2 ha ini akan kami langsung serap,” katanya ditemui usai acara Panen Raya Jaksa Mandiri Pangan, di Kabupaten Bekasi, Jawa Barat, Selasa, 19 Agustus.
“Tadi saya sudah perintahkan kanwil Jawa Barat untuk langsung menyerap dengan harga pemerintah Rp6.500 per kg,” sambungnya.
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Previously, Director of Perum Bulog Ahmad Rizal Ramdhani said Bulog was committed to absorbing all the harvest yields of the Prosecutor Mandiri Food program.
"Alhamdulillah, we will absorb these 2 ha," he said after the Panen Raya of the Mandiri Prosecutor for Food, in Bekasi Regency, West Java, Tuesday, August 19.
"Earlier I ordered the West Java regional office to immediately absorb it at a government price of Rp. 6,500 per kg," he continued.