Minister of Agriculture, Amran Sulaiman, said that Indonesia's agriculture is the world's 25th largest or only Southeast Asian country included in the Food Sustainability Index (FSI).
Countries listed in the 25 lists must meet the 2/3 population of the world and already account for 87 percent of the total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the World.
The rating is the result of an international economic research and analysis institute based in the UK, The Economist Intelligent Unit (EIU) and the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition (BCFN) Foundation.
Both institutions released the Food Sustainability Index in December 2016. Indonesia is ranked 21 out of 113 countries with a score of 50.77 after Brazil and is above the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and India.
"There is an interesting info, we dawn to receive the sms released on the Food Sustainability Index (FSI), Indonesia in 21 in the world from 113 countries," said Amran at the Ministry of Agriculture's auditorium, South Jakarta, Monday (3/7) / 2017).
In fact, according to him for sustainable agriculture category, Indonesia is ranked 16 (score 53.87) after Argentina and is above China, Ethiopia, United States, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Egypt, United Arab Emirates and India.
In this category, Indonesia scores high on the availability of abundant water resources, low environmental impacts of the agricultural sector on land, environmental biodiversity, land productivity, and climate change mitigation.
"In a certain indicator we are in the order of 16 world.Because of our hard work in 2016 global food securtiy index was the highest jump, 2.7.It is a good sign for Indonesia.Our dreams into the top ten and 2045 Indonesia so granary Food world, "he explained.
Meanwhile, from the food loss and waste aspect, Indonesia is ranked 24 (score 32.53) after United Arab Emirates and is above Saudi Arabia. In this aspect, Indonesia is included in the medium category in an effort to overcome the problem of food loss.
While on the nutritional challenges aspect, Indonesia is ranked 18 (score 56.79) after Brazil and is above Turkey, Russia, Egypt, Mexico, South Africa, Nigeria and India. In this category Indonesia is considered able to overcome the problem of micronutrient deficiency, the prevalence of excess nutrients, malnutrition, excess sugar, and able to buy fresh food.
Amran rate, This is a very remarkable achievement given the previous June 2016 research institute EIU also released that Indonesia ranked 71 out of 133 countries with the largest increase in the world with a score of 2.7 on the Global Food Security Index (GFSI).