Prabowo Subianto Appreciates Minister Of Agriculture Amran Sulaiman For Realizing Food Security

Minister of Agriculture Amran Sulaiman received an appreciation from President Prabowo Subianto. (Doc of the Ministry of Agriculture)

JAKARTA - The President of the Republic of Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto, appreciated the hard work of the Minister of Agriculture (Mentan) Andi Amran Sulaiman in building the national agricultural sector. Prabowo said that the Minister of Agriculture brought a noble mission because what he was doing was basic needs.

"I am very grateful to the Minister of Agriculture and agricultural instructors. I appreciate that your mission is very noble. Moreover, the assistance of the Babinsa and Bhabinkamtibmas as driving motors in national food security," said President Prabowo, quoted from a press statement from the National Police SSDM some time ago.

Regarding this, the Head of the Public Relations Division (Kadiv) of the National Police Headquarters, Inspector General Pol Sandi Nugroho, said that his party was ready to support the President's direction in realizing food self-sufficiency launched by the President in a short time. As a concrete step, the National Police will immediately socialize the recruitment of Special Competency Officers (Bakomsus).

"We plan to recruit Bakomsus from agricultural vocational schools. Bakomsus is a special competency non-commissioned officer, who comes from agriculture," said Sandi, yesterday.

Sandi said that the plan is for the Bakomsus kickoff to start this November and will be socialized in December. According to him, the National Police has collaborated with various relevant ministries and parties who have a special focus on agriculture and nutrition experts.

"It has started recruitment to be able to get the best candidates to start food security issues as well as for problems with expertise in the nutrition sector," he said.

Assistant Chief of Police for Human Resources Inspector General Pol Dedi Prasetyo explained that the recruitment of Bakomsus will be carried out in all Agricultural Vocational Schools throughout Indonesia so that later more and more new generations of Polri will master their skills in agriculture.

"With the addition of one Agricultural Vocational School competence, at least he will be able to adapt to agricultural communities even faster because he already has sufficient background knowledge. Therefore, agricultural vocational schools throughout Indonesia will be recorded later," he said.

Minister of Agriculture (Mentan) Andi Amran Sulaiman on the previous occasion said that self-sufficiency is a mission that must be blazing and absolutely to be realized. Related to this, the Minister of Agriculture invited all parties to support the various programs that are being worked on.

It is known that the government is currently preparing a strategic program to print 3 million hectares of rice fields in South Papua, any Kalimantan in South Sumatra. In addition, the government also continues to work on optimizing swampland as a joint effort to accelerate self-sufficiency.

"Swasembada is absolutely carried out as proof that Indonesia is an agricultural country that has abundant natural resources and also fertile land to be optimized as a special productive food land," he said.

According to the Minister of Agriculture, the agricultural sector is the most strategic sector because apart from business opportunities, this sector is also an opportunity for poverty alleviation. Agriculture is the sector most expected because it is proven to be able to absorb employment opportunities.

"Therefore, once again, let's together realize the ideals of our nation and also the hopes of the Indonesian people under President Prabowo Subianto to make our nation self-sufficient and also the world's food barn," he explained.