The Indonesian government has announced its plans to import five food commodities this year, including beef, buffalo meat, garlic, industrial rice, and sugar. The Director of Food Availability at the National Food Board (Badan Pangan Nasional), Indra Wijayanto, said the government would only import 400,000 tonnes of rice for industrial use this year, while there was no allocation for consumption rice. Industrial rice is typically utilised in the production of rice flour and the hard food processing industry. The type of industrial rice is broken rice. Meanwhile, the government has allocated an additional quota of 200,000 tonnes of sugar to bolster its food reserves. The import plan is assigned to the State-Owned Enterprise (BUMN) Food in the form of raw crystal sugar.
Regarding this year's import plan, some quotas are allocated to strengthen the government's food reserves, while others are allocated to business actors. The import quota allocation has been determined in the Commodity Balance Sheet. The list of food import allocations for 2025 includes the following: 180,000 tonnes of consumer beef; 100,000 tonnes of beef under BUMN assignment; 200,000 tonnes of buffalo meat under BUMN assignment; 550,000 tonnes of garlic; and 200,000 tonnes of consumer sugar for food reserves.
