How to Overcome the Soaring Prices
In this time, the price of rice is soaring and it seems not beneficial for farmers in Indonesia. It is not because the farmlands especially rice fields are submerge in water so that it’s failed to harvest, but it’s caused by some factors. On the other side, the government’s ability and power to influence market mechanism and middlemen are greater than farmers, because the government has function and role of dualism, i.e. searching for profit and stock.
The farmers have a very little strategy and effort to be able to do those things. This reality happens because of the impact of the men in authority’s behavior who always set farmers as the objects of their agenda. The rise of rice’s price this time is a part of political strategy to find support from the middle class and over and also from the urban community so that the rice import gets responds from the people.
The farmers are worried about rumor that imported rice will enter the country. It’s based on the experience several times ago, because the coming of rice from foreign country always causes disadvantages to the farmers, i.e. it makes the price of unhulled paddy plunged.
Reference: KR, January 23, 2006; Kompas, January 21, 2006.
The farmers have a very little strategy and effort to be able to do those things. This reality happens because of the impact of the men in authority’s behavior who always set farmers as the objects of their agenda. The rise of rice’s price this time is a part of political strategy to find support from the middle class and over and also from the urban community so that the rice import gets responds from the people.
The farmers are worried about rumor that imported rice will enter the country. It’s based on the experience several times ago, because the coming of rice from foreign country always causes disadvantages to the farmers, i.e. it makes the price of unhulled paddy plunged.
Reference: KR, January 23, 2006; Kompas, January 21, 2006.
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