Bank Indonesia Mulai Ancang-Ancang Jaga Inflasi Di IKN Melalui Upaya Ketahanan Pangan

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JAKARTA - Bank Indonesia (BI) together with the Provincial Inflation Control Team (TPID) throughout Kalimantan carried out the activities of the Kalimantan Regional National Food Inflation Control Movement (GNPIP).

The agenda is intended to modernize upstream-hilir agriculture (integrated digital farming) in order to encourage the optimization of production and efficiency of food prices in the medium term, especially supporting the food security of the new capital city of the archipelago (IKN).

Deputy Governor of BI, Dody Budi Waluyo, said that synergy and policy innovation are the key to economic resilience and rescue from the risk of crisis.

"We invite all elements of the regional government and their ranks, business actors, and farmers to carry out routine monitoring of production and distribution developments from upstream to downstream to build food security in the Kalimantan region and its surroundings," he said in a written statement quoted on Tuesday, December 13.

According to Dody, South Kalimantan will be one of the provinces that will be relied on in supporting the supply of foodstuffs in the new IKN so that strengthening inflation control measures, especially rice, needs to be taken in a broad dimension.

"This is a short-term plan and in the long-term through the use of environmentally friendly and technology-based resources," he said.

On the same occasion, the Governor of South Kalimantan, Sahbirin Noor, said that high inflationary pressures currently require extra efforts, including strengthening food sector interventions.

Inflation control and increased food production need to be maintained in the long term through the use of urban and digital farming. In addition, the modernization of the upstream and downstream sides of agriculture needs to be strengthened in increasing agricultural production in the Kalimantan region and is able to contribute to supporting the security of new IKN food," he explained.

To note, various strategic steps were also taken by the Bank Indonesia Representative Office throughout Kalimantan in supporting the implementation of GNPIP, such as downstream agricultural products, and the distribution of the Dedication Program for the digital farming country.

Considering that the island of Kalimantan is not a food production center, every province has implemented an expansion of cooperation between regions, especially from Java and Sulawesi.

Furthermore, the role of Food BUMD in regional Kalimantan is also strengthened so that it can assist the government in meeting people's food needs and playing a role as a food price stabilizer.

All of these strategic programs are expected to increase food security in the Kalimantan region, as well as contribute to efforts to maintain food price stability.