IRONIST AGRICULTURAL COUNTRIES

"IRONIST AGRICULTURAL COUNTRIES" - Anyone who looks at the green rice stretch will surely feel happy. Especially if it happens to the landowner or rice cultivator, then surely feel the excitement is extraordinary. The green clump of rice clearly indicates the fertility of plants and the chances for the success of the harvest will be even greater.






Country of Indonesia which is in the position of the equator with the seaweed in two seasons seuguginya seasons of rain and summer and soil fertility is very profitable once as a geographical potential that can be utilized optimally for development in the field of agriculture and plantation. Coupled with the condition of Indonesia which is the largest archipelago country in the world with the number of islands that have been registered in the UN as many as 17,504 islands, which means Indonesia in addition to a number of agrarian countries as well as a very large maritime potential of natural resources from the sea in terms of fishery.


Indonesia from pre-independence era until the last period of the New Order era is very famous and known as an agrarian and maritime country by the world, one of which is as the largest rice exporting country in the world in its time. Even to buy airplanes at that time Indonesia did not have to bother to print the sheet of rupiah but quite bartered with rice, imagine how abundant grains of rice in our country which is called Indonesia at that time (New Order era).


But now what? started in the Age of Reform until the Age of Now (alay alay's term) at this time to predicate as a rice exporting country is no longer attached to the Indonesian people but rather the world's largest rice importer (supplier) in the world. In fact almost all of our other agricultural / plantation products depend on import just like other samples of onions, lombok, potatoes, fruits. Even the newest unexpected salt we should also Import from neighboring countries. It is ironic, but even more ironic is that the suppliers of agricultural products / plantations that enter Indonesia are small countries such as Thailand, which may be only one-eighth of the agricultural land of the Indonesian nation.


What's wrong with our nation? until to meet the needs of the nation's own food alone we can not afford. Of course that can answer all that only the highest regulators of our country. At least we do not need the prestige or skepticism to study and reflect on the long history we have experienced as the world's largest rice self-sufficiency country in the past, we can try to repeat what our past successes without having to use the authoritarian we protested together at that time.


The number and extent of our agriculture has not changed much from time to time, at least Thailand's elephant country is still much larger farmland than us. The character of our society is still much to love the indigenous culture of the people of the nation, as a nation that loves to grow crops and fishermen, our agricultural technology is well established, it just needs a firm policy and supporting regulations to guide our community so they can continue to utilize the land and resources agriculture / plantation and fishery that has been awarded by Allah SWT to the geography of the Indonesian nation.



So what else we wait for, this ironic country should we raise again like a tiger that we must wake up to be able to show again that Indonesia is still a fierce nation, still a great nation. Minimal food self-sufficiency is no longer dwarfed by a small nation with a small population.