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The House of Representatives plans to set up a team to oversee the government's decision to import rice to ease market prices, which farmers have protested will lower the commodity's farm-level price ahead of the coming harvest season.
The Indonesian Regency Administrations Association (APKASI) has called on the central government to review its plan to import rice, as it will cause farm-level prices for unhusked rice to drop ahead of the harvest season in the coming weeks.
A meal without rice is no meal. The Japanese proverb applies in Indonesia too, as the majority of the population try to include rice in almost every meal, a demand that the government confidently claims it can meet using next year’s state budget.
After struggling to survive the impact of the El Niño weather phenomenon last year, Indonesia has finally seen domestic supply of the country’s most important staple food return to adequate levels, putting aside the need to import by year-end.
