Food Security

All living things need survive and they survive by eating, drinking and living in a proper shelter. Food security is one of the world's biggest problem people are facing now and Indonesia is the world’s fourth most populous country that are facing the food security. With the total of 237 million people living in Indonesia, approximately 25 million people are facing food insecure, particularly households engaged in food and cash crop subsistence farming and agricultural wage labor. The majority of them live in the east of the country, where 40 percent of the population live below the national poverty line, above the 13 percent national average.

Data showed that demand for rice, the country’s staple food, reached 139 kilograms per capita per year. Children under five suffering from malnourishment, Indonesia is also plagued by over-nutrition as a growing problem. 

Currently, 14.2 percent of children under five suffer from over-nutrition and obesity. In the adult age group, the prevalence of people with over-nutrition has reached 21 percent, increasing risks of non-communicable diseases.

There are lots of unemployed people in Indonesia. If you go to the central of Jakarta, you can see lots of kids singing on the street to earn money for their family and themselves. It is also dangerous for those kids who sings on the street, cars might hit them and they get injured. If they get injuries, they must go to the hospital and have a check up, but then they need money. 

People might think that once they get the money, it will be forever theirs. NO. Each place, they've got this property which are the gangs who will take the money from them.Then they will have nothing left to eat. 

Yet, Indonesia produce the world third most rice production and now floods are attacking all the crops.

The diversification of food consumption, for example, has been observed in a number of relatively poor provinces in Indonesia. The problem of food insecurity in the country is not necessarily due to the lack of food supplies in the domestic market, but has more to do with the inability of people to access the food that is available.The problem of food access in the country is further heightened by poor infrastructure, which prevents the smooth transportation of affordable food products throughout the vast geographical space of the country.

Moreover, the preoccupation of the Indonesian government with achieving food self-sufficiency, which emphasizes the production of food products for domestic consumption, has done little to improve the access of poor people to affordable, healthy and nutritious foods to fulfill their dietary needs.