JAKARTA - Farm observer Rochadi Tawaf assesses that Danantara's plan to invest IDR 20 trillion is better directed at revitalizing existing chicken farms than building new ones.
Rochadi stated that building a chicken farm from zero is high risk and takes a long time.
"It is more realistic if the government enters the existing companies, especially those that go bankrupt, then are revitalized," said Rochadi quoting ntara.
The Secretary General of the Central Executive Board of the Indonesian Cattle and Buffalo Breeders Association added that the current condition of the people's farm is concerning.
According to him, many people's livestock land is leased to foreign parties, while the existing infrastructure is not optimally utilized.
"The cultivation of the people has collapsed due to industrial pressure. Why is it not directed to finance it to improve people's livestock, then downstream it to the big Nuget industry so that people's products are absorbed," he said.
Rochadi assessed that the move to build new farms has the potential to be difficult to compete with large private companies that have controlled the market.
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Previously, the government through Danantara submitted an investment plan of IDR 20 trillion to build broiler and laying hens.
Minister of Agriculture Andi Amran Sulaiman explained that the integrated chicken farm construction will begin in January 2026 to support the free nutritious food program (MBG) and strengthen national food resilience and independence.
Amran said the construction would be focused on areas that still lack the supply of chickens and eggs.
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