November 17, 2025 | 03:00 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Sacks of rice rose in towering stacks inside the State Logistics Agency’s (Bulog) warehouse in Gianyar, Bali, when a delegation from Commission IV of the House of Representatives (DPR) visited on Wednesday, October 29, 2025. Politician Siti Hediati Hariyadi—better known as Titiek Soeharto—from the Gerindra Party led the commission’s visit to the facility, which can hold up to 3,500 tons of rice.
Titiek’s inspection came a week after Agriculture Minister Amran Sulaiman declared that Indonesia had achieved food self-sufficiency. He announced it during the One-Year Performance Review Meeting of the Coordinating Ministry for Food Affairs in Jakarta on Tuesday, October 21. On the issue of rice, Amran—whose office is in Ragunan, South Jakarta—claimed annual production could reach roughly 34 million tons, enough to cover consumption needs of about 30.9 million tons.
Titiek checked the rice quality by stabbing a sack with a small iron probe. From inside the bag, she found broken grains with a musty smell. Johan Rosihan, a member of Commission IV from the Justice and Prosperity Party (PKS) who accompanied her, said the rice had spoiled after sitting in the warehouse for eight months. “From its appearance, it’s no longer fit for consumption,” Johan said of his Bali visit when reached on Thursday, November 13.
It was not just one sack. The batch of broken rice totaled around 9,000 bags. Weighed together, it came to roughly 450 tons. According to Johan, the spoiled rice came from unhusked rice absorbed by Bulog under a policy that ignores quality—known as “any quality.” Johan noted that Bali Bulog had purchased that grain in February 2025.
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