JAKARTA - Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/Head of the National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) Nusron Wahid ensures that he will protect productive agricultural land from the threat of function transfer.
According to Nusron, industrial and housing development often looks for cheap land, which is usually rice fields.
"My job as Minister of ATR/Head of BPN is to hold back the rate of land conversion, so that rice fields do not turn into industrial areas, housing, or become social conflicts," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, August 27.
Productive rice fields that are included in the Sustainable Food Agricultural Land (LP2B) should not be converted.
He revealed, if there is a need for land replacement, then new land must have the same productivity.
"If the rice fields produce 20,000 tons a year, then the replacement land must be equivalent to productivity, namely 20,000 tons as well, and not just the same extent," said Nusron.
This is important, because according to data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) in 2021, there will be a shrinking of rice fields in Indonesia, between 60,000-80,000 hectares per year.
Nusron said that the loss of rice fields could threaten national food security.
Food security requires rice fields. In life there must be rice fields. Nothing should be shifted to anything," he said.
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Nusron emphasized the importance of synergy between the government, the community, and other stakeholders in maintaining productive agricultural land.
With good cooperation, it is hoped that the rate of land conversion can be reduced to a minimum so that national food security can be maintained.
Previously, the Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/Head of the National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) Nusron Wahid stated that the application of protected rice fields (LSD) could suppress the conversion of rice fields land conversion in maintaining food security and supporting the sustainability of the agricultural sector in Indonesia.
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