JAKARTA - The government ensures that there will be no imports of rice and sugar for consumption in 2026, in line with the strengthening of national production, safe stocks, and sustainable steps towards food self-sufficiency and sovereignty of the domestic agricultural sector.
Deputy for Coordination of Commercial Order and Food Distribution of the Coordinating Ministry for Food Affairs, Tatang Yuliono, emphasized that there would be no imports of rice and sugar for consumption in 2026.
"(Sugar) our consumption is not imported. So for (sugar) consumption, we have no imports. There is no import of consumption rice. Industrial rice is not done. If consumption, we are almost all self-sufficient," said Tatang in a statement in Jakarta, quoted by Antara, Thursday, January 1.
The government ensures that the consumption needs for strategic staple food commodities such as rice, sugar, and feed corn can be met from the supply of Indonesian farmers' production.
In the discussion of the Commodity Balance (NK) in 2026 led by the Coordinating Ministry for Food (Kemenko Pangan), the agreement made was more prioritised to supply from domestic production.
"Everything we decide is a proposal from business actors. Then verified by friends from related technical government agencies. Hopefully this decision can meet rather than all expectations," he said.
Meanwhile, the Head of the National Food Agency (Bapanas) and Minister of Agriculture (Mentan) Andi Amran Sulaiman emphasized that his party always sided with the interests of domestic farmers and livestock farmers.
"For 2026, the government under the command of President Prabowo Subianto, continues to be committed to protecting Indonesian food farmers and livestock farmers. Our farmers and livestock farmers must not lose. They must be prosperous. Their hard work must be channeled to the Indonesian people," said Amran.
Furthermore, in the 2026 NK there was no agreement regarding the general rice import quota. For 2026, Indonesia no longer imports general rice which was previously assigned to Perum Bulog for the addition of Government Rice Reserve (CBP) stocks.
Meanwhile, imports of industrial raw rice are also not in 2026. Meanwhile, in 2025, the import quota for industrial rice had previously been issued for 13 private business actors who needed rice flour and vermicelli raw materials.
The raw materials for the industry in question are broken rice with a degree of integrity of less than 15 percent and broken glutinous rice with a degree of integrity of less than 15 percent.
In the absence of imports of industrial raw rice in 2026, the government encourages business actors to be able to optimize local raw materials in the form of broken rice and broken glutinous rice.
"The hope is that local raw materials can meet the specifications for amylose content, cleanliness, and viscosity as well as hardness," said Amran.
In addition to rice, the consumption of sugar was also decided not to be imported in the next year. In the National Food Balance Projection for 2026 as of December 28, 2025, it is estimated that the carry-over stock of consumption sugar from 2025 to 2026 will be 1.437 million tons.
While the annual consumption needs are 2.836 million tons, so that the estimated annual consumption sugar production can reach 2.7 million tons to 3 million tons can create a solid surplus.
Finally, imports for feed corn, seeds, and household are ensured to be non-existent in 2026. In the calculation of the National Food Balance Projection 2026, the carry-over stock from 2025 to 2026 is very large at 4.521 million tons. From that, there is an estimated decline/leakage of 831,600 tons.
Even so, the production of corn in 2026 is projected to be 18 million tons. The annual demand for corn ranges from 17.055 million tons, so that the availability of corn nationally is still very sufficient even though there is no importation in 2026.
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