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Govt to slash corn, salt, sugar import quotas for 2025
Next year's import quotas for key industrial commodities, including salt and sugar, are to be significantly reduced as part of the Prabowo administration's overarching aim to achieve food self-sufficiency.
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A boy accompanies a farmer in harvesting salt on March 17, 2024, in Talise, a coastal area in Mantikulore district, Palu, Central Sulawesi. (Antara/Basri Marzuki)
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he government aims to slash next year’s import quotas for corn, salt and sugar as part of a larger push for Indonesian industries to use more domestically produced inputs.
Coordinating Food Minister Zulkifli Hasan said the 2025 import quotas for the three commodities would be much lower than the projected demand from local industries.
For example, Zulkifli said that while the estimated demand for industrial corn this year was between 1.6 million and 1.7 million tonnes, the government planned to set next year’s corn import quota at just 900,000 tonnes.
“We must force ourselves to improve the quality of our domestic corn production so that it can be absorbed by [domestic] industries,” he said on Monday during a food commodity balance coordination meeting at his office, as quoted by Kumparan.
He added that the government would still allow industrial salt imports for the next two years, but at a reduced quota.
Zulkifli said the industrial salt import quota for the chlor-alkali industry would be 1.7 million tonnes in 2025, or 68 percent of the projected demand of 2.5 million tonnes.
“We ask the rest to process salt so it can also be used for industries. We will try to work hard over the next two years” in producing industrial salt domestically, he said.
