How Indonesia Is Diversifying Its Crop Production For Food Security | CNA Correspondent

Sorghum farming in Central Java, growing sago palm trees in Riau. In a world plagued by an uncertain global food supply due to the war in Ukraine and climate change, Indonesia is looking to diversify its sources through the cultivation of these sustainable crops. Some have the added benefit of helping to protect the environment and creating alternative sources of income.
CNA Correspondent looks into the steps taken by farmers, companies and the government to combat food insecurity.
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[@dwidana2574]

Remember, sorghum, sago, and millet are not a replacement for rice, but a subtitute. It's all about crop diversification. We, as an Indonesian, need to diversify our source of carbs. Crop diversification leads to better health and economy of Indonesia.

[@Sebastiancityfans]

Can you tell me a dish made from sorghum?

[@dwidana2574]

@@Sebastiancityfans basically, any dish can be replaced with sorghum. For specific name of dish, you can google food from East Nusa Tenggara or West Nusa Tenggara!

[@Sebastiancityfans]

@@dwidana2574 as a jakartan i rarely see sorghum in a dish, let alone the sorghum itself. I think it's better the government also popularize sorghum dishes so that the demand for it increases. Because based on this video, we can tell that it's still hard to find buyer for sorghum

[@muharahman3993]

di Majalengka sorghum untuk pakan ternak, Petani masih bingung utk pasar sorghum. Ada koperasi yg bermitra dgn petani tetapi baru ter serap sedikit.

[@chikac2637]

​@@Sebastiancityfans You can watch from BRIN channel that sorgum is still being developed, not officially sell and consume in our national market. It's true sago are not for rice substitute, currently the government are making effort to return mindset that sago is staple food for people in eastern Indonesia like Maluku and Papua, so people don't need to feel embarrassing when they didn't eat rice as staple food. We are Indonesian should be proud we have two kind of staple food, those are rice and sago.

[@koshurkot3892]

Sorgum can be an alternative to wheat🌾 Education is needed in wheat consuming markets like middle East and others regarding it. Indonesia can be a good supplier of sorgum to the world. And given it's stability and geopolitics, it can be a safe supplier as well. . May Allah bless them farmers of Indonesia and bless Indonesian economy.

[@muhammadfazrimanurung2009]

Amin ya allah

[@AjayTiwari-en9nz]

Also, Sorgum stems can be used to produce biofuel, reducing the use of fossil fuels.

[@sashascarface]

Chia and quinoa Tru power house can replace Rice or wheat Quinoa is the most expensive of them all it reach around 10 $ pee kilo

[@allenarefirahmawati3515]

So excited to consume soghum, hopelly it'll soon distributed in all Indonesia's area

[@harukrentz435]

Klo ada d pasar pengen beli siih

[@starsinthesky1433]

Actually you can bought sorghum in e-commerce apps

[@soberman1520]

@@starsinthesky1433 but most of them is imported sorghum maybe because the production is not good enough or the distribution not extend enough

[@iskotayo1]

Sorgum has been developed here since 8-10 years ago I really want to know how it taste. And I'm glad it would become true in the near future...

[@sandechoir]

its just like corn

[@altair4849]

cant wait for this to be massively available here in the states

[@deanbowie3774]

Java comes from the word Jawadwipa/Yavadvipa, meaning rice island/barley island. Since ancient times many grain crops have been cultivated since ancient times. This is evidenced by archaeological findings in the form of burnt grain at the Liyangan Site, Temanggung, due to the eruption of Mount Sindoro. In Dieng, during the repair of the temples in the Dieng area, the researchers found barley seeds stored in a flat stone box inside the temple's well. Java has always been famous for rice production, but many also cultivate rice substitute crops such as Shorgum, Jola-jali corn, Barley, Sago as staple foods. But this has been replaced by the prestige of these foods with rice over time. From the colonial period to independence, rice was a symbol of prosperity & glory, so the slogan "you haven't eaten if you haven't eaten rice" appeared. This proves the high prestige of rice compared to other staple crops. After Suharto came to power, there was a Mataramization movement, in which one of the campaigns was about the priority of rice over other staple foods. This has the effect that the dependence of the Indonesian people on rice is very high, and this threatens the sustainability of staple crops such as Shorgum & Sago which dominate Eastern Indonesia and other regions in Indonesia. That's why it's important to find alternative food sources so you don't have to depend on imported rice or wheat all the time.

[@sashascarface]

In the Philippines sorghum is a bit extensive it's a round 2$ to 3$ per kilo I will give a try and plant this year in my garden It's good for animals , making bread even sirop and molasses . Quinoa can replace Rice it's a power house . High in protein 1 cup 2x more then Rice Fiber 5g more then Rice Quinoa contains fewer calories and carbohydrates than rice.

[@karokaron2802]

I am proud to live in Indonesia, a fertile land

[@vbdemystified709]

Your prime minister is moving capital city to Kalimantan, fertile but sinking land

[@lil_jong-un6668]

@@vbdemystified709 Sinking in only a small part of Indonesia which caused by human causes. You're exaggerating things.

[@vbdemystified709]

@@lil_jong-un6668 moving capital city isn’t exaggeration… your citizen will die soon and you are being too optimistic

[@lil_jong-un6668]

@@vbdemystified709 There are still numerous projects and processes to solve sinking, what's moving is only the status of the city. We do not abandon Jakarta, it's still the center of Indonesia's economy. Think of it as Nusantara as Washington DC and Jakarta as NYC. Also no, people mostly already move from sinking areas. You're just exaggerating things out of ignorance.

[@pustakarileks7404]

@@vbdemystified709 we don't have prime minister you fool

[@aldinoruswandi]

I was shocked when she started to speak Indonesian fluently 🤣🤣

[@YouOnUsPath]

Bisa jadi orang Indonesia keturunan India dari Sumatera yang kerja jadi koresponden CNA

[@aldinoruswandi]

​@@YouOnUsPath mungkin, bisa jadi. btw banyak juga lho keturunan India di daerah Jawa, peninggalan zaman perdagangan dulu di pelayaran jalur sutra (China, India, Arab)

[@YouOnUsPath]

@@aldinoruswandi iya keling, kalo saya jawa banjar cina, namun berat jawanya, itu yang diketahui 3 generasi ke atas, kalau tes dna gatau lgi bkl gmn chartnya.

[@aldinoruswandi]

@@YouOnUsPath kalau saya asli jawa, tapi punya guru bk waktu sma keturunan India, punya temen deket dari smp keturunan India, sama punya temen kuliah yg keturunan India juga. Waktu tk, sd, smp, sma, kuliah juga punya temen2 deket keturunan tionghoa. Seru bisa main bareng2, apapun suku bangsanya kita tetap Indonesia bro :D

[@YouOnUsPath]

@@aldinoruswandi inggih leres lur

[@ongesinaiya]

Javanese called it Canthel (Chan - tell) .. it was my ancestor diet to survive when rice crops failed. If Sorghum become famous and familiar to all Indonesian citizen... adios to Wheat

[@harukrentz435]

Nah ini orang2 tua kita cerita makan sego jagung, sego canthel, dsb tp generasi muda gak tau krn terbiasa makan nasi

[@AudioAdios]

Tak kira itu nasi jagung ternyata cantel itu sorgum 😂

[@prashantj7839]

Sorghum roti or flat bread is staple food in Maharashtra and Karnataka states of India. It is called jowar roti. Please search how to make it on KZbin

[@aldinoruswandi]

Thanks 🙏

[@ariapinandita9240]

Roti = bread in Bahasa Indonesia and Basa Sunda (West Java). Apart from rice, the food sources we use are corn, millet (jawawut), sorghum, and sago... The island of Java (Jawadwipa, pulau Jawa) is taken from Jawawut plant... Now, most of the rice seeds in Indonesia come from the project Sanghyang Sri and IRRI (International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines)... The largest rice production sites in Indonesia are in Subang, Karawang and Purwakarta (site of the Sanghyang Sri project). These three cities are located relatively close to Jakarta so that the Jakarta metropolitan area (about 30 million population) can be supplied with food easily...

[@ariapinandita9240]

Besides that, we are also developing a mina-padi system... Mina = fish, padi = paddy... Cultivating crops in paddy fields and at the same time growing fishes... mostly tilapia fish brought from Madagascar (mujair, nila, etc)... Lots of plants and fishes brought from Africa and planted in Indonesia. Such as tilapia fish, and Ki Tambleg trees (baobab trees) and palm oil tree (kelapa sawit). Ki Tambleg trees are now often found as shade trees... Relations with Africa have indeed been established for centuries, even since the time of Mpu Nala (13th century)...

[@continuousself-improvement1879]

One way to strengthen food security and bringing prosperity to Indonesian farmers, IMO, is by labeling all food products. Indonesians should know the origin of the food they are consuming: is it local or imported? No use of distributing sorghum, but then it turns out to be imported. Indonesians would take pride in buying local produce and grains, doing their share of strengthening the local farmers.

[@Ocean-zj6vh]

Universiti pertanian malaysia buat ape?? Tahniah indonesia!!

[@chvhndrtntlr3482]

the best food is the food that you can grow locally

[@nzkningratan8173]

dun forget tiwul aka cassava rice, pretty much safe for diabetic n gastric

[@harukrentz435]

Ooh btw ive been eating FuFu for dinner for a week. Delicious, easy, cheap, and filling. Perfect to subtitute rice.

[@burnthem6430]

Hopefully this project can stabilize bird food prices....

[@harukrentz435]

They say you can make cookies and bread from sorgum if that is true then it's no brainer as Indonesia is the 2nd biggest wheat importer in Asia.

[@AndrianHendrawan]

yes you can make those with sorgum

[@grandebadidea7689]

Wheat consumption in Indonesia are mostly for noodle factory lol. Indomie says hi.. Indonesians don't eat bread a lot. Only the rich who try to live like westerners, have breakfast with bread. Lol, it's a no for us.

[@ktan8]

I never knew that the "sago" in Watermelon Sago is actually made from the trunk of a palm tree.

[@ongesinaiya]

Not Palm Tree.. but Sago tree

[@sleverlight]

its actually more environment friendly too, to diversify crops

[@ryxarkhalyx]

more indonesians need to watch this! 👍

[@belajarsaham3273]

Indonesia sebagai negara kepulauan dan beragam etnis dan budaya sebenarnya sudah dari nenek moyangnya makanan pokoknya diversifikasi. Nenek buyut kami makan nasi yg dicampur jagung dan atau ketela. Adalah suharto presiden ke 2...yg saat itu berjuang untuk swasembada pangan dan Standarisasi dia segala bidang. Standarisasi yang niatnya bagus mempunyai efek samping, yaitu dijadikannya beras sebagai standart makanan karbohidrat terutama bagi pegawai negri sipil. Tidak hanya itu beras menjadi paramater utama dalam pengambilan kebijakan yang kala itu masih jawa sentris dimana beras adalah makanan utama. Lambat laun semua pulau selain jawa pun tergantung akan beras. Menjadikan bottleneck dalam industri pangan. Upaya diversifikasi dilakukan menjelang akhir rejim suharto....sayang POLA makan rakyat Indonesia sudah berbah menjadi tergantung pada beras. Butuh waktu panjang lagi untuk diversifikasi .

[@assassinschord]

4:50 "Excuse me ... May I have some?" 😬

[@56fbb2]

Jawar Roti...from Sorghum.

[@leenamyon1720]

Those mangrove trees, are they bakau trees,,, if somebody enlightens me, I appreciate.

[@adislarrabee]

Yes, Mangrove in Bahasa Indonesia means Hutan Bakau (Bakau Forest)

[@ivangeo3319]

Singapore want it

[@alfancahyadi]

Traditional tongue is hard to receive the taste of sorgum to replace the rice

[@hanipbet4357]

I can replace eating rice daily with corn rice 'ampok' , cassava rice 'thiwul' , & sago easily. the problem is the price. i still cant afford it

[@srisetyonowartowarto2852]

Kita tunggu realisasi di lapangan oleh pemerintah terutama oleh kementan bekerjasama dengan Bulog untuk stok dan distribusi, kelemaham terbesar adalah pada implementasi di lapangan dan masih massivenya korupsi kolusi manipulasi di Nkri.

[@BayuAH]

The problem with rice substitutes is rice is high calories. Just eat small amount of it can make your tummy feeling full.

[@koshurkot3892]

Lol

[@faustinuskaryadi6610]

Finding rice substitute isn't about rice calories, but for finding rice substitute that requires less water to produce.

[@hustletroos1383]

Lah balik tahun 70an akhir makan sorghum lagi,

[@hijisfriend9030]

Bagus dong. Bapak oe lagi senang nih hahaha.

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

emang lagi krisis

[@betawikid]

Deversikasi pangan sih, ngga mungkin bisa gantiin beras. Statusnya sama nanti kaya Jagung, Singkong, Talas, Sagu.. Sebagai karbohidrat sampingan

[@anaskhoiri3653]

Berasa nonton anime genjitsu Yuusha dimana MC diverifikasi makanan sebelum bikin kebijakan yang lain, Food Estate itu udah arah yang benar makanannya dulu yang dipikirkan baru abis itu bisa mikirkan yang lainnya

[@mariaannainditahernawati7132]

@@betawikid betul indonesia beruntung punya lahan dan iklim yg pas tinggal dibiasakan kembali utk tidak terlalu sering mengkonsumsi 1 jenis karbo saja jadi bisa byk komoditas yg bisa dihasilkan dan dikonsumsi sesuai musim san iklim kalo harus terus menerus makan nasi jenis tertentu yg perlu byk air padahal sekarang musim kemarau tambah lama itu namanya nggak efisien dan boros makan hasil panen per musim itu lebih baik ya kayak durian yg paling nampol hasilnya pas musim kemarau jika dibandingkan dg panen pas musim hujan cmiiw

[@icysan889]

for 5 Kg of rice I can only get about 2Kg of sorghum rice, it's hard to help this plant replace the rice

[@faustinuskaryadi6610]

Sorghum was supposed to be wheat subtitube, not rice substitute. It's supposed to be made to flour for noodles and bread making.

[@maevshadowsong]

it can be planted after rice season ended tho

[@grandebadidea7689]

Not replace, but substitute and diversify.

[@Christperson]

Mbah daksoko ni bwuooss... Senggol dongg !!! 😂😂🔥🔥🔥

[@hendricahyana]

Rice is still the best la.

[@nagawahyudi]

wait until u got diabetes....

[@sepbimursyid]

The purpose of sorghum plantation is to diversify Indonesia food supply. If the government succeed in this diversification, we can change the wheat with sorghum, so that we decrease the import. So I think this is very good alternative solution..

[@AndrianHendrawan]

it's an alternative, to ensure country's staple food security, we can't rely only on rice

[@ryxarkhalyx]

in term of taste, yea, in term of health, nope

[@pustakarileks7404]

Kata orang rasanya sorghum seret, bener gak sih?

[@faustinuskaryadi6610]

Dibikin pancake aja dari tepung sorgum

[@pustakarileks7404]

@@faustinuskaryadi6610 kalo bikin roti tawar gitu bisa bang?

[@faustinuskaryadi6610]

@@pustakarileks7404 Di India ada yang namanya Jowar Roti, mirip-mirip parata/roti Canai/roti Maryam tapi dibuat dari tepung sorgum. Cari aja di KZbin. Ga tahu bisa ga dibikin jadi roti tawar dikasih ragi.

[@pustakarileks7404]

@@faustinuskaryadi6610 thanks bang

[@oktaviaveri2981]

Gk kok, ditempatku di Flores banyaj sorgum. Dari dulu sampe sekarang kita masih mengkosumsinya. Sorgum itu enak kalau dimasak campur kacang2an dan santan kelapa

[@gaza1677]

Breadfruit is better You plant once and you forget

[@noelpro69420]

Wait we growing white people food

[@ahmadutama-cd9pb]

Wth is white people? Its just people. People are not crayon.

[@faustinuskaryadi6610]

Chinese used to eat millet not rice in the past. Sorghum is close relative to millet, so that's not white people food. Uncle Roger isn't representation of entire Asian at all.

[@noelpro69420]

@@faustinuskaryadi6610 well I need more knowledge about our descendants and origin

[@absentmindedshirokuma8539]

Millet (Jawawut) and sorghum (cantel) was identical with island of Java. Some even say the origin of Java island name was from Jawawut since thats the main food source javanese people at the time during first documented contact with outsider before rice replace it. To this day, millet still called java tree in islands around Java. India also called the island Jawadwipa which mean the land of jawawut.

[@deanbowie3774]

Asian people have a more varied staple food than westerners. This is not turning rice into a western food crop as you might think. Papuans, for example, are more familiar with sago than rice. Mass new rice used after World War II.

[@majujaya8217]

Ribuan hektar tanah milik Prabowo di Kalimantan hampir saja di beli sama orang Singapura, ketika kejatuhan presiden Soeharto tanah itu diambil alih oleh Prabowo tidak jatuh di tangan asing, tapi jika negara memerlukan silahkan ambil kata Prabowo. Jika tanah itu dimiliki Singapura bakal ada negara Singapura dikalimantan. Dan sangat mengerikan lagi ramalan otodamus dibuku ramalannya pulau Kalimantan bertuliskan Singapura bukan Indonesia.

[@iskotayo1]

jangan percaya ramalan... percaya kekuatan doa karena ramalan itu masih bisa dibolak balik oleh Tuhan YME...

[@ongesinaiya]

40 hari ibadah ente kagak diterima kalau percaya ocehan peramal..itu kalau ente agamanya Islam

[@vbdemystified709]

Tuhan ga miliki hak tanah, Singapura tuan Indonesia. Majulah Singapura!!

[@asterinycht5438]

Sumber nya dong 😊?? Jangan bilang trust me bro... 😐

[@yogasetiaone]

Hoax tetap dia yang kaya raya