Indonesia’s Food Resilience Initiative to Strengthen National Food Security
The food resilience initiative is now being expanded via an industry shift toward data driven and tech-enabled agriculture to increase production capacity. Traditional production is being upgraded with smart agriculture tools from IoT robots and AI applications that enable real-time monitoring of crop health to aquaponic systems. In addition to promoting new technologies, the Coordinating Ministry for Food articulated ten priority initiatives to be implemented over the next five years, several of which move beyond consumption-based programs to structural reforms. Key pillars include:
- Restoring ecosystems and protecting food-producing land
- Increasing productivity through intensification and farmer assistance
- Building community-based food systems
- Diversifying local food sources to reduce reliance on a narrow set of staples
- Raising animal-protein consumption as part of broader nutrition and supply goals
- Strengthening innovation and a sustainable national food industry
- Upgrading logistics systems and food reserves
- Reducing food waste across the supply chain
- Promoting farmer regeneration
- Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) programs
Having been explicitly linked to inadequate waste and clean-water management, GOI issued Presidential Regulation No. 10 of 2025 that frames waste-to-energy as part of the food security agenda. In addition, GOI enforces labor-based expansion, such as inmate agricultural empowerment programs to support localized production. These efforts show that Indonesia’s food resilience is increasingly defined by industrial capability, innovation, and environmental management, recognizing that environmental infrastructure is inseparable from agricultural productivity.
