WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development
Print ISSN: 1790-5079, E-ISSN: 2224-3496
Volume 21, 2025
Food Estate Management System and Policies in Pulang Pisau and Kapuas Regencies, Central Kalimantan Province, Indonesia
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Abstract: The Indonesian government initiated the food estate program in Pulang Pisau and Kapuas Regencies, Central Kalimantan Province to increase food resilience. This paper aims to analyze: (1) the food estate management and policies in Indonesia and (2) the efforts conducted in handling food estate management. This paper employed the empirical research method and the empirical research approach. Results showed that the legal policy on rice paddy and cassava food estate management follows the juridical basis on food estate. It was implemented from 2020 to 2024 as a governmental effort to follow up on Law No. 18/2012 on Food. This juridical basis is further strengthened by Presidential Decree No. 109/2020 on the Third Amendment of Presidential Decree No. 3/2016 on the Acceleration of the Implementation of the National Strategic Project and the Decision of the Minister of the National Development Planning No. Kep.18//M.PPN/HK/03/2023 on the Main Food Estate Development Plan/Center of Food Production Area in Central Kalimantan Province. Applying the food estate program has led to an increase in the average rice production. Many facilities have also been built on the food estate land, including roads, worker barracks, water sources, buildings, etc.
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Pages: 19-27