Govt to review land use for agriculture

Vice President Boediono said the government would review land use planning for agriculture in order to stabilize prices, according to the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin).

"There is a message from the Vice President for us to pay attention to land use from the perspective of national interests. We had a discussion on food security," Fransiscus Welirang, Kadin's chairman of the food security committee, said after a meeting with Boediono on Thursday.

Present were Franky Oesman Widjaja, Kadin's acting chairman; Rudyan Kopot, Kadin's chairman of the aquaculture industry committee; and Juan Permata Adoe, Kadin's vice chairman of the maritime, agriculture and cattle-breeding industries.

"We too want to see price stability. Domestic factors may cause prices changes," Weliran said.

In January, inflation rose 3.72 percent from a year earlier because of rising commodity prices, the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) reported.