Consumption of instant noodles and imports of wheat is high because Indonesian people prefer to consume instant noodles. This was announced at a conference between the FREP legislature and the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) on Tuesday (16 March 2022).
Consumption of instant noodles and imports of wheat is high. Head of BPS Suhariyanto said the federal government should expand its diet by increasing production which is used as raw material for instant noodles. The goal is of course to reduce these imports.
“Our diversification may need to be addressed in quotation notes because our dependence on flour, especially instant noodles, is very high,” he said at a conference with the Indonesian House of Representatives Legal Entity (Baleg), Tuesday (16/3). , 2022).
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Suhariyanto detailed that wheat imports would reach 10.2 million cargoes by 2022, worth $2.6 billion. For the year to February 2022, wheat imports totaled 1.6 million cargoes worth $463 million.
This is a challenge for the government to diversify food and increase the production of instant noodle raw materials that can be used as a substitute for flour.
“Regarding food imports, it is clear that our diversification needs to be tightened because our attachment to flour, especially instant noodles, is very high,” he said at a combined meeting with the Legislative Body (Baleg) DVR on Tuesday 16/3).
Based on BPS records, imports of wheat and meslin averaged $2.5 billion a year. For example, in 2022 the value of Indonesia’s wheat imports reached $2.56 billion and rose to $2.79 billion in 2022. In 2022 the value will be $2.6 billion. “So our imported wheat is 2.6 billion,” he explained.
He not only focused on wheat, but also highlighted the fairly large imports of soybeans, salt, and corn. In 2022, soybean imports reached $1.1 billion. Further, in 2022 and 2022, it will reach $1 billion.
At that time, salt imports totaled $90 million in 2022 and rose to $95 million in 2022, although the value declined to $94 million in 2022. In the end, corn imports totaled $159 million in 2022, $212 million in 2022, and $ 172.six million in 2022. “So this should be a problem,” concluded Suhariyanto.
Apart from wheat, Indonesia is still interested in importing soybeans. Total soybean imports in 2022 will reach 2.47 million cargoes worth $1 billion.
This was met by imports of salt as much as 2.6 million cargoes worth 94 million US dollars. Corn imports totaled 805.6 thousand cargoes valued at $172.6 billion, garlic imports 594.2 thousand loads valued at 598 million loads, and beef imports valued at 167.12 million loads valued at 587 million dollars.
