Jayapura City Government Monitors Land In Koya Functioned As A Food Security Center

Acting Mayor of Jayapura Christian Sohilait (Doc. ANTARA/Jayapura City Government)

JAKARTA - Agricultural land located in the areas of West Koya and East Koya, Muara Tami District, Jayapura is under the supervision of the Jayapura City Government, Papua. The area is projected to be a food security center for the surrounding areas.

Acting Mayor of Jayapura Christian Sohilait, in Jayapura, Saturday (4/1), said the land currently in the area was no longer converted to housing development.

"We ask the Department of Food Security and Agriculture to continue to supervise," he also said.

According to Sohilait, Muara Tami District is a producer of food commodities in Jayapura City, so it is hoped that in the future there will be no diversion of land conversion.

"For this reason, we hope that people in Muara Tami District can also utilize vacant land into agricultural land so that it can spur the volume of agricultural commodity production as the population of Jayapura City increases," he said again.

His party acknowledged that food needs cannot be separated from the availability of land sources for agriculture, thus it is hoped that land owners will no longer sell land that is currently planted with agricultural commodities.

"Because of this, it is also related to the prevention of inflation which is influenced by me buying high people but goods are not available," he said again.

He added that agricultural land in the West Koya and East Koya areas is still being maintained to support the central government's program, namely making Papua a national food barn.