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View all search resultsRice, one of the most tightly regulated commodities in the country, increased in price throughout 2022, which has industry experts asking whether the protective measures themselves could be driving inflation.
The growing urban middle-income population has undergone dietary and lifestyle changes in recent years toward more grains and oilseed commodities, vegetables, fruit, fish and chicken. Hence, while the agricultural support policy should continue to aim at keeping our dependence on rice imports very low, the government should allocate more resources to the production of other food crops and horticulture.
The challenge is how to convince ministers that infrastructure is not only for humans but also for animals and their ecosystems. How to convince President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo that the construction of the Sumatra toll road should not obstruct the routes of the Sumatran elephant and rhino migration or their habitats?
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