TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Agrinas to manage nearly half a million hectares of food estate
The land would be developed by the Agriculture Ministry, with 200,000 hectares situated in Wanam, South Papua, while the remaining 225,000 hectares spread across South Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, West Kalimantan and South Sumatra.
Change text size
Gift Premium Articles
to Anyone
Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends, family, or colleagues. As a subscriber, you can gift 3 to 5 articles each month that anyone can read—no subscription needed!
A farmer works in a rice paddy on June 28, 2024, in Lambaro district, Aceh. (AFP/Chaideer Mahyuddin)
T
he newly established state-run agro-industrial corporations Agrinas will be tasked to manage a vast 425,000-hectare food estate, the government said on Wednesday.
The land would be developed by the Agriculture Ministry, with 200,000 hectares situated in Wanam, South Papua, while the remaining 225,000 hectares spread across South Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, West Kalimantan and South Sumatra.
“Although the company is just waking up, getting on its feet and learning to walk [like a baby], Agrinas Pangan will already oversee 425,000 hectares of farmland by the end of this year,” Deputy Agriculture Minister Sudaryono said on Wednesday, as quoted by Kontan.
Agrinas comprises three state-owned companies to oversee food, fisheries and oil palm plantations as part of a larger effort to bolster food security.
Its food arm is called Agrinas Pangan, whereas the two others are named PT Agrinas Jaladri Nusantara and PT Agrinas Palma Nusantara, respectively. The three were previously transformed from non-performing state-run infrastructure companies.
It shares a similar function with existing SOEs like plantation company PT Perkebunan Nusantara (PTPN), food holding company ID Food, the State Logistics Agency (Bulog) and fisheries company PT Perikanan Indonesia (Perindo).
Looking ahead, Sudaryono added that Agrinas’s food arm would see more land under its management, potentially reaching millions of hectares, in line with President Prabowo Subianto’s ambitious food sustainability agenda.
