Indonesia has been ranked as the world's fourth-largest rice producer according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in its Food Outlook Biannual Report on Global Food Markets released in June 2025, with projected production reaching 35.6 million tons for the 2025/2026 period.
The FAO report places Indonesia behind China with 143 million tons, India with 146.6 million tons, and Bangladesh with 40.7 million tons, but Indonesia showed the highest growth rate among major producers with a 4.5% increase from the previous period.
Head of the National Food Agency (Bapanas) Arief Prasetyo Adi reported that current rice stocks at Perum Bulog warehouses have reached 4.2 million tons, with 2.6 million tons sourced from domestic farmers' harvests absorbed by the government procurement agency.
Under the leadership of Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman, the Ministry of Agriculture has implemented strategic breakthroughs including accelerating planting schedules, providing superior seeds, improving irrigation systems, and ensuring timely fertilizer distribution to achieve exponential production increases.
The government has established a Government Purchase Price (HPP) of Rp6,500 per kilogram for paddy and eliminated the refraction policy to increase farmer paddy absorption, with current average Dry Harvested Paddy prices at the farmer level reaching Rp6,733 per kilogram as of June 26.
