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JAKARTA - BUMN Food Holding ID Food is committed to optimizing the potential of West Java (Jabar) in order to realize national food security.

One of them is through a business development scheme and food investment in West Java.

ID Food continues to synergize with the governments of West Java and Bank Indonesia to develop business and investment in the area.

Director of Business Development and Control of Food Holding ID Food, Febriyanto said, strengthening the local food sector of West Java has the potential for business development for ID Food as a solution to anticipate the food crisis through food investment.

One of the food commodities to be developed is sugar.

Through the revitalization scheme of the Subang Sugar Factory with a capacity of around 4,000 TCD managed by PT PG Rajawali II.

"This sugar factory will open up opportunities for the development of sugarcane businesses in West Java as well as solutions for the availability of sugar food to meet the needs of the community," he said in an official statement, Friday, October 7.

Febriyanto said, the company will also strengthen Sukamandi agricultural land managed by PT Sang Hyang Seri's holding members with a total area of 3,156 hectares (ha).

This development is through the concept of industrial agriculture based on science, technology, capital, organization and modern management.

In addition to the agricultural sector, said Febriyanto, ID Food Group also has a business development scheme in the Livestock sector, namely a task force that is integrated with the hatchery, feedmill, and hen house business lines.

"The development of this sector's business is targeted to be able to meet the demand for chicken meat in the West Java region," he said.

According to him, SOEs holding food ID Food have advantages that collaboration can be carried out for business development and food investment as an effort to strengthen the food ecosystem in West Java in various sectors, there are agriculture, livestock and other potential sectors, there is also the potential for business development of the Fisheries sector in the West Java region through optimizing fish and shrimp feed factories.

"The potential for the development of the food business of ID Food has the advantage of expanding the integrated food ecosystem by maintaining the upstream food downstream balance," said Febriyanto.

Febriyanto said, upstream there are agriculture, livestock and fisheries involving farmers, breeders and fishermen, downstream there is trade involving MSMEs and food business actors.

In addition, the Governor of West Java, Ridwan Kamil at the WJIS 2022 activity said, West Java is one of the regions in Indonesia, even in the world that has very fertile soil, there are around 750,000 hectares of land in West Java ready to be used as a food business.

"The most fertile land is in West Java, fertile land causes the food business to become an easy and much needed business," he said.

Furthermore, Ridwan Kamil said, West Java Province is still the prima donna for investors, along with investment realization data until the first semester of 2022, which found that West Java Province became a province with the highest investment realization in nationals worth Rp83.5 trillion, an increase of 15.24 percent (yoy).


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