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This paper highlights shows how differing methods of data collection from various government bodies have led to an erroneous overestimations in Indonesia's domestic rice supplies. The data, which is used in the decision making process for food policies, have impacted how much consumers pay for rice. The paper proposes modern data collection methods to capture a more accurate picture of staple food availability, and the challenges these proposed methods would face if implemented.

About a quarter of the plantation sector's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is contributed by the plantation agriculture sub-sector. However, the plantation sub-sector still faced structural problems such as the relatively low productivity of smallholder plantations compared to that of large plantations run by the government or private sector. Another problem is the quite large disparity of land and labor productivity between regions. Closing the productivity gap is key to enhancing productivity in all these three commodities. In this paper, the writer describes strategies to close the productivity gap between regions and between smallholders and large plantations.