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Affordability challenges realization of food resilience in Indonesia

Affordability is one of the challenges in achieving food resilience in Indonesia, considering the higher rate of ...

World Food Day spurs Indonesia to assess food security policy

World Food Day celebrated on Oct 16 offers Indonesia the requisite momentum to assess its policy in pursuit of national ...

Statistics Bureau: Purchasing power continuing to weaken

Head of the Central Bureau of Statistics, Suhariyanto, has said that the people’s purchasing power is still ...

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Indonesia braces for extreme dry season amid COVID-19

As it battles the coronavirus pandemic, Indonesia, which is currently entering the dry season, is bracing for a ...

APEC urged to safeguard food security through open trade policies

Member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) have been advised, in a new policy brief, to adopt an ...

President calls on farmers to expedite planting before dry season

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has appealed to farmers to speed up the planting season before the 2020 dry season sets ...

Agriculture minister guarantees sufficient national food stocks

Agriculture Minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo has ensured that the national food stocks will suffice for the upcoming ...

President urges ministers to protect availability of food

President Joko Widodo  (Jokowi) has urged ministers to pay close attention to the Food and Agriculture ...

Indonesia's shipping costs remain expensive: Jokowi

Indonesia's shipping costs remain expensive, though the government has carried out a sea toll program to reduce the ...

Inflation rate throughout 2019 at 2.72%: BPS

The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) recorded an inflation rate throughout 2019 of 2.72 percent because the government ...

ADB's 2019 economic outlook for Indonesia maintained at 5.1 percent

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) decided to maintain its forecast for Indonesia's economic growth at 5.1 percent in ...

Drought paralyzes life in 11 villages in Blitar, East Java

The Blitar district administration has provided clean water to the residents of 11 villages reeling from the impact of ...

Agitation against bills will not affect inflation: BPS

The mass action against controversial bills in the past week did not affect the inflation rate, the Central Statistics ...

Strong domestic consumption to back Indonesia's economic growth: ADB

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) affirmed that robust domestic consumption will maintain the growth rate of the ...

Drought threats may affect food prices: researcher

The government would need to seriously address the threat posed by drought as it could lead to the risk of crop ...