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The plan to double palm oil production is still environmentally, technically and commercially feasible because there are still large areas outside the natural forests that are fit for oil palm estate expansion.
In view of the digital transformation in agriculture and the increasing complexities of farming today, Indonesia needs to embrace a systems thinking approach to empower farmers by recognizing and growing their agency.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that only 1.7 percent of climate financing reaches local communities and smallholder groups, who contribute the least to climate change and biodiversity loss.
The next government needs to aim for integrated, coherent policies to regulate the palm oil industry, especially in view of the mainstay commodity's declining production trend and the country's development and energy transition goals.
The greatest contributing factor is the yield gap between farmers on Java and farmers outside Java, so a national program on increasing rice productivity should focus on massive investment in agricultural technology to boost the capacity of farmers outside Java.
As ASEAN sets out to mark a new era through its recently opened negotiations on the DEFA, agritech must be part of the core focus so smallholder farmers can both benefit from and contribute to a sector that is instrumental to the region's economies.
This year's BPS agricultural survey points to a lack of farmer regeneration as well as other factors suggesting a significant decline in future productivity, which experts say could leave the country dependent on imports.
