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strong>Dec. 13, Online

 Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan says the nation could be a net rice exporter if Indonesians ate less rice.

Indonesians eat about 140 kilograms of rice per capita every year, well above the 70-kilogram figure for other Southeast Asian nations, such as Malaysia or Thailand, Gita said on Monday.

Your comments:

Let see if the minister is doing what he is saying. Is this minister regularly eating rice with a cassava mix? Or is he telling poor Indonesians to do that, while he is eating rice.
Gene

Gita is actually making sense. We Indonesians eat too much rice: Rice morning, noon and night. Then look at the portion: huge mountains of rice on the plates.

Other rice eating countries don’t eat rice as much. They either substitute with other carbohydrates/vegetables, or they have much smaller portions.

Try eating with Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Vietnamese. None of them eat as much rice as us.

Too much carbohydrates causes diabetes and as the numbers show we just eat too much rice!
Andy

What a thought and the nation could be much richer if the powers that be stopped taking the money for themselves!
Rahadi Widodo

Well, tell the people in Java, where most of the rice is consumed, to eat cassava; that’s what we eat
here in Kupang every day! Tastes good too!!
Henry Manoe

That’s like the prime minister of Australia telling the people to eat less wheat so as we can export more. Mr. Minister, you should eat less and there would be plenty to go around for everybody and I am not talking about rice.
Chazza