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Friday, January 12, 2024, 5:00 p.m. WIB
Presidential candidate number 2 Prabowo Subianto estimates that food management was good during the era of the 2nd President of the Republic of Indonesia Suharto. (REUTERS/AJENG DINAR ULFIANA).
Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
Presidential candidate number 2 Prabowo Subianto concludes that food management was good during the era of the 2nd President of the Republic of Indonesia, Soeharto. He therefore asked the question why this management was no longer continued.
Prabowo first mentioned that many farm children are currently having difficulty getting into a good school. Apart from that, many people are now implementing the free market or free market.
“Why was food management, which was good in Pak Harto’s times, dismantled?” Prabowo said on Friday (December 1) at the presidential candidate dialogue with Kadin: Towards a Golden Indonesia 2045 in Jakarta.
He explained that Perum Bulog’s proper task is to carry out control operations. This means Bulog can control prices for farmers while maintaining prices at the consumer level.
Prabowo said the food problem arose because Indonesia capitulated to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The reason for this is that the IMF became Indonesia’s debt creditor after the 1998 crisis. Bulog’s authority was curtailed Statement of Intent (Lol) It was signed between the IMF and the government.
The LoI is said to be the beginning of the collapse of the food production system in Indonesia. The LoI completely reduced Bulog’s role as a stabilizer of food prices, especially rice.
In addition, providing financial assistance for food is also prohibited. Therefore, Bulog is no longer able to maintain market operating mechanisms, maximum prices, inventory management and base prices.
“But back then we surrendered to the IMF. We believed they loved us even when they didn’t. There is no feeling of love in relations between countries, what matters are their interests. If we collapse, there will be no problem for them,” Prabowo said.
Prabowo also said that agricultural issues are a matter of life and death for a nation. Because this has to be classified into strategic problems.
However, he saw that this issue was being treated as a commercial issue in Indonesia.
“That’s what I mean, that we must first take sides with philosophy. Philosophy then produces a strategy. So food issues and agricultural issues are life and death issues for a nation,” Prabowo said.
“That means this is a strategic issue and should not be treated as a commercial issue,” Prabowo said.
In addition, Prabowo said that the problem of the current decline of farmers is that young people see the example of their parents who do not make a profit and do not live a prosperous life.
“The exchange rate is not appropriate and this neoliberal character makes it difficult for farmers’ children to get a good school because everything is seen as a must, it is seen as a free market,” he said.
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