The agricultural sector of Indonesia

Although it plays a very important role, the share of the agricultural sector in the economy is continuing to decline. In addition, the labour market absorption sector has continued to slump.

Bank Indonesia (BI) said there are at least three major problems experienced by national agriculture at this time. According to the Governor assistant head of the political Economic and Monetary Affairs department Beni Dody Budi Waluyo, these problems include production, distribution, price and affordability.

"Problems related to production capacity, farmers ' productivity, incentives for farmers and inaccurate data leading to problems with import policy," said Dody in event coordination meeting media briefing BI with the Central Government and the Regions Crowne Plaza Hotel Semarang, Thursday (30/3/2017).

Meanwhile, problems in distribution, among other things, trade and the length of perpetrators-perpetrators who dominate the market. In addition, the pricing of prices is also governed by some market participants.