RICE SELF-SUFFICIENCY IN INDONESIA: AN ANALYSIS ON BUDGET ALLOCATION AND THE ACHIEVEMENT
Abstract
Rice is the main staple food of Indonesia and being a strategic and important
commodity as it has upstream and downstream linkages connecting many
stakeholders from input to output markets. Any regimes of the Government of
Indonesia take it into account and conduct many agricultural programs in order to
achieve rice self-sufficiency through production, post harvest, marketing, trading and
price stabilization policies. Budget had been allocated through related ministries to
support any programs achieving rice self-sufficiency targets. This study aimed to
evaluate the program achievement by comparing budget allocation and rice selfsufficiency
ratio as the indicator. The result showed that budget allocation of rice
self-sufficiency tended to increase, while rice self-sufficiency ratio tended to
decrease, thus rice self-sufficiency had not been achieved yet. The result implied
that Indonesia should stabuilize rice reserve and rice price by reducing import
dependency of rice. that budget allocation tengrew positively, while rice selfsufficicency
ratio grew negatively. It concluded that the more budget allocation did
not solely push target achievement of rice self-sufficiency.