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President to have teleconference on food resilience

President Susilo Bamang Yudhoyono is scheduled to hold a teleconference on food resilience with three provincial ...

Floods inundate ponds, rice fields in S Sulawesi

Floods submerged hundreds of hectares of shrimp and fish ponds as well as rice fields in South Sulawesi Province ...

Minister: Rice Import to Maintain Food Resilience

The government has given the green light to State Logistics Agency (Bulog) to import 1.5 million tons of rice in a bid ...

Whirlwind Damages 546 Houses in Bondowoso

Whirlwind damaged 546 houses in Pakem Sub-district, Bondowoso District, East Java.Head of Bondowoso Disaster ...

Govt urged to anticipate potential global food crisis

The Central Organization for Indonesian Employees (Soksi) urged the government on Wednesday to take prompt steps to ...

Govt taking measures to curb basic necessary price spiral

As basic necessary prices are soaring, the government is planning to free certain food commodities from import duties ...

Free import duty to help offset food commodity prices

As prices are sky-rocketing at home, the government is planning to free certain food commodities from import duties in ...

President calls for prompt steps to curb food price hikes

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called for prompt steps to deal with the recent food and energy price hikes. ...

Inflation to weaken people`s purchasing power

Despite predictions that the country`s economic growth may reach seven percent or over this year, the upward trend in ...

Govt to expand farmland area by 2 mln hectares

The government has set itself the target of expanding the country`s agricultural land area by 2 million hectares in ...

Govt sets 2011 inflation rate at 5.3 pct

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the inflation rate in 2011 was expected to remain around 5.3 percent."We want ...

News Focus: Inflation specter looms over RI`s economic horizon

The inflation specter looms over Indonesia`s economic horizon despite the projected sound economic performance for ...

Climate change begins changing food production pattern

Climate change is now no longer a potenial threat to Indonesia`s food production but a phenomenon that has already ...

Two presidential instructions expected to maintain food resilience

Two presidential instructions (Inpres) are expected to be issued at the end of this month on measures to safeguard ...

Govt to pursue nine ways to stabilize food prices

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the government would implement nine solutions to keep the domestic food prices ...