Bulog President Director: Progress in the Construction of 100 New Warehouses has entered the Stage of Drafting Presidential Regulation

JAKARTA - Director of Perum Bulog Ahmad Rizal Ramdhani said the progress of the construction project of 100 new warehouses is currently entering the stage of preparing the Presidential Regulation (Perpres), to accelerate the strengthening of the infrastructure for storing national food stocks.

"So the progress is now entering the preparation of the Presidential Decree. The preparation of the Presidential Decree, the approval of each ministry and agency," said Rizal when met after being a speaker at the 2025 Ministry of Agriculture Public Information Openness Award, in Jakarta, quoted by Antara, Tuesday, December 23.

He explained that the draft regulation is currently in the process of cross-ministerial and inter-agency coordination before being signed by President Prabowo Subianto.

"That was before the President's signature was issued, each ministry and agency must give the paraf after being read by the ministers and so on," he said.

The new warehouse construction project is a government assignment to Perum Bulog to strengthen food logistics infrastructure to all regions of Indonesia, including the lagging, leading, and outermost (3T) areas.

"We are waiting and this is now the process in the Ministry of State Secretariat," said Rizal.

Furthermore, he said that while waiting for the completion of regulations and the construction of warehouse infrastructure, Bulog still relies on filial warehouses or rental warehouses to accommodate government rice reserve stocks (CBP).

Bulog projects that the capacity of the filial warehouses used in 2026 will reach around 2 million tons, adjusting to the estimated increasing procurement needs.

"We are still using the filial warehouse because while we are waiting for it to be processed, we have to use the filial warehouse first. The warehouse will later adjust to the needs. We plan to stock at least 2 million tons of capacity for the filial warehouse in 2026," said Rizal.

Furthermore, Rizal explained that the addition of warehouses was an urgent need because the estimated procurement of Bulog rice in 2026 was confirmed to exceed the realization of 2025 which reached 3 million tons.

The construction of 100 new warehouses will include rice and corn storage warehouses, drying facilities (dryers), milling units (rice milling units/RMU), silos, and rice to rice (RTR) based on modern technology.

The program is supported by funding of Rp5 trillion from non-permanent government investment funds. In the development process, it also involves Danantara, as a state-owned enterprise investment management agency.

Previously, a Joint Decree (SKB) on the Assignment of the Acceleration of the Implementation of Post-Harvest Infrastructure Provision in the Framework of National Food Security was signed by the Minister of Agriculture and Head of the National Food Agency Andi Amran Sulaiman.

In addition, the Minister of Home Affairs Muhammad Tito Karnavian, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Finance Heru Pambudi, and the Head of the State-Owned Enterprises Regulatory Agency Dony Oskaria, with the support of the Coordinating Minister for Food and Agriculture Zulkifli Hasan.

Zulkifli Hasan said the construction of 100 Bulog warehouses was a direct order from President Prabowo Subianto to strengthen the national food logistics system.