one day no rice

One Day, No Rice, In order to reduce the consumption of rice in Indonesian society, the government launched a campaign, the movement "One Day No Rice", this movement has been rolling for a year in some areas of Indonesia such as NTT, NTB, North Sulawesi, North Maluku, Sumatra

One Day, No Rice, If this campaign can be successfully carried out one day a month, the national rice consumption per year to the finite-saving 1.2 million tonnes, it will reduce the demand for 1.2 million tons per year of rice

Rice consumption Indonesian society is still high, consumption of rice per day throughout Indonesia alone was 100 thousand tons, the highest in the world and even Indonesia, in total 139 kg / capita / year

If consumption in the form of rice reached about 105 kg / capital / year, is very different to people in countries which together consume rice as Japan 70 kg / capita / year, China 90-100 kg / capita / year.


It seems the government has been unable to do much to increase rice production. Kick pamungkasnya is to get people to eat less rice, this campaign like a resignation that Indonesia is quite difficult to meet the needs of rice for domestic consumption. So this plan is like slowly changing habits of eating rice 235 million Indonesian population, the course is not an easy thing or practically an impossibility

The government hopes the campaign, rice consumption can be reduced with other staple foods such as vegetables, fruits, animal protein and vegetable, Although he acknowledges about the diversification of food is closely related to income levels

But that would be a further issue, whether the availability of other foodstuffs to be sufficient, Given Indonesia still imports vegetables, fruits and vegetable and animal remains to be obtained with an expensive price,
So what happened instead of living expenses incurred will be the higher community

To switch to the consumption of other staple food of course, also takes time and is quite difficult, must also change the habits, culture and community suggestion which is certainly not an easy matter

The main consumption of the poor is rice for the poor is already burdened with the price of rice since 2006 to 2010 it continues to increase

Campaign a day without rice is not going to affect urban communities and middle to upper. But the influence of the poor. They are very sensitive and dependent with rice. I believe this will greatly affect the poor

Then this program would be successful, means that people eat less rice, be sure the big city residents began to consume non-rice foods such as bread, potatoes, instant noodles to animal products, which means a new problem that is causing the import of wheat, flour and even meat

As a result the program is only a solution by looking at factors of consumption and the high demand for rice as a matter of the still low level of production and problems of agricultural trade system. Thus completion of the consumption problem is not production

Country Indonesia