Indonesia's Food Security Challenges: How Food SOE Optimizes its Role?

The problem of food security has always been an important and urgent concern for Indonesia. greater uncertainty in production, price volatility, increased demand due to population growth rising incomes, uncertain climate change, natural disasters are still latent problems. Strategic, sustainable, comprehensive efforts that can overcome these challenges must be immediately carried out ensure the availability sufficient equitable availability. This article reviews role Bulog as a state-owned enterprise (SOE) established domestic food. With presence Bulog, it is hoped will maintained at any time place affordable prices, especially low-income households. Comprehensive agriculture policies respond future followed up form policy implications each sector various relevant institutions. system created based on efficient self-sufficiency optimal levels buffer stocks. For this reason, government provide adequate support so realized function optimally.