Minister Of Agriculture Amran: End Of December 2025 Indonesia Self-Sufficiency In Rice

Minister of Agriculture Andi Amran Sulaiman gave a press statement at the Presidential Palace Complex, Jakarta, Thursday (20/11/2025). (ANTARA/Fathur Rochman)

JAKARTA - Minister of Agriculture (Mentan) Andi Amran Sulaiman said Indonesia would achieve self-sufficiency in food in the rice sector by the end of December 2025.

"Our food is specifically for rice, God willing, on December 31 at 12.00 WIB, if nothing goes wrong. For the next 30 days, 40 days, Indonesia will be self-sufficient in food," Amran said in a press statement after a limited meeting with President Prabowo Subianto at the Presidential Palace Complex, Jakarta, Thursday, was confiscated by Antara.

He explained that the achievement was previously targeted within four years, before then adjusted to three years, and then to one year after the existence of regulatory and financing support.

Amran assessed that the acceleration of the target was part of President Prabowo's direction in strengthening the national food sector, especially rice.

In addition to focusing on rice production, Amran said that his party also plans to build people's farms in the upstream sector.

The plan includes the construction of feed factories as well as day old sales (DOC) production facilities to support the stability of feed prices, vaccines, and medicines for farmers.

"We want to produce DOC for the people so that the price of feed, the price of vaccines will be stable. Medicines are stable for farmers throughout Indonesia. There are 3,700,000 of our breeders. We have to take care of them," he said.

The government, he continued, is also preparing policies related to the cost of goods sold (HPP) as well as plans to determine the highest retail price (HET) for feed to maintain price stability at the farmer level.

He said the feed factory facility would be built at 12 points in the first and 18 points in the second phase, with an estimated budget of around IDR 20 trillion.

"Once again this was built for small breeders. So this was built for small breeders, to support, support small breeders," said Amran.

Previously, in October, Amran explained that rice production as of October 9, 2025, as stated by the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), reached 33.1 million tons. "January - November (2025), our estimated production is 34 million tons at the end of the year, (higher) compared to last year, our production is 30 million tons," said Amran.

Amran also said that the increase in rice production, which reached record highs throughout history, occurred due to improvements in various sectors, including distribution of fertilizer directly to farmers, irrigation improvements, distribution of agricultural tools and machinery (alsintan), and improvement of complicated regulations to be simple, including acceleration in the printing of new rice fields in various regions.