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Food security is a strategic issue for Indonesia, considering the country's rapid population growth and climate change, which is becoming increasingly more extreme. Indonesia once declared it had achieved food self-sufficiency, especially in rice. However, in recent years, the country has had to import rice to meet the needs of its citizens or to maintain rice stock security.
The shortage has been caused by the conversion of agricultural land into industrial and residential areas and the declining interest among people in becoming farmers, among other things.
Our Vision is:
Ensuring food self-sufficiency strengthen's Indonesia's Economic Growth.
We want people eat more local food so Indonesia doesn't need to import so much rice.
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THE MENTORS
STEP 1: IDENTIFYING GLOBAL ISSUE
What is Food Self-Sufficiency?
Food self-sufficiency means a country produces a significant portion of its food needs, ideally exceeding 100% of consumption. This doesn't necessarily mean complete isolation from international trade; it can involve specialization and both importing and exporting food.
According to BPS, from 2019 to 2022, the amount of imported rice remained stable, but from 2023 to 2024, it increased significantly by 9 to 10 times.
According to the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), in 2024, Indonesia imported 4.52 million tons of rice throughout 2024. The amount of rice imports increased by around 47.38% from 2023 rice imports of 3.06 million tons. This figure makes it the highest amount of rice imports in the last seven years.
This graph shows Indonesia’s rice import sources, and the biggest supplier is Thailand. The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) reported that Indonesia's rice import volume in January 2024 reached 443 thousand tons with a value of US$279.2 million. The volume increased by around 82% compared to rice imports in January 2023. It shows that imported rice is increasing 9-10 times.
We made the fishbone diagram to find out why the imported rice is a big problem in Indonesia right now.
We choose SDG number 8 which is economic growth where we are focusing on. Because Indonesia We choose land convertion because not only us who want to solve this problem, but also the government. Land conversion in Indonesia, particularly the shifting of agricultural land to non-agricultural uses, is a significant issue impacting food security and the nation's overall development. This conversion is driven by factors like urbanization, infrastructure development, and industrialization. The government recognizes this as a major threat and has implemented policies to protect agricultural land and promote food diversification.
When visiting Museum Tanah dan Pertanian, we found that farmers spread around Indonesian. From Java and Sumatra they mostly have divers carbohydrate intake and resources. But from Maluku to Papua, they have limited carbohydrate resources. Indonesian people mostly eat rice in western area, and eat corn and sagu in easrtern area.
Three problems we need to solve:
1. Food self-sufficiency
2. Economic growth
3. The government responsibility
Since the government need our support to solve these problems
Food self-sufficiency is not only to ensure that everyone has enogh food supply, it's also about the worship or ibadah, because we protect Allah's blessing, this Qur'an verse stated that we cannot waste food.
We applied communicator profile when we got interviewed by the ministry of agriculture to rise the awareness about food self-sufficiency.
We applied principled profile by following the schedule of mentor meeting.
We applied inquirer profile while visiting Museum Tanah dan Pertanian and gathered the data about different type of soil.
We applied Reasearch skills by interviewing nutritionist and learn about different type of nutrition in foods.
We applied communication skills by explaining to G2 students about local rice and imported rice.
We applied self-management skills by planting daun kelor, chili and kangkung and taking care the plants by watering them every morning.
To start pour exhibition process, we formulated the questions and the lessons we want to explore. They are:
1. What is food self-sufficiency, and why is it important for a country like Indonesia? so that Indonesia does not need to rely on other countries to meet its people's food needs
2. What are the staple crops that are the focus of Indonesia's food self-sufficiency program? Rice, cassava, potato, onion
3. How does food self-sufficiency contribute to economic growth? By lowering imported cost
4. How can Indonesia reduce its dependence on imported food? By increasing domestic production
STEP 2: DETERMINING TIME FRAME
The exhibition process has 6 steps and take 4 months from January until April. We start by identifying the significant issues and complete it by sharing the exhibition through action, panel session and staging.
STEP 3: ENGAGING SUPPORT FROM LEARNING COMMUNITY
Our first resources of course from Al Jabr community, teachers, friends, PYP students, families and expert. Our first fieldtrip is to Museum Tanah dan Pertanian, Bogor. There we learned about soil ecosystema and the staple crops of Indonesia. We observe and examine the variety of plants and the technology that important for food self-sufficiency program.
Our second resources is the Ministry of Agriculture. From the ministry staffs, we gain more knowledge about food self-sufficiency program held by the government.
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STEP 4: ORGANIZING LEARNING
After gathering many information from the resources speakers, we conducted a home project to compare the local and imported rice (Japanese rice). From this experiment we found out that imported rice is more flavour, chewy and softer. We also conduct this experiment with our parents.
Then we also conduct an experiment in the school community. We use the strategy of Near Transfer because our respondents are Al Jabr community
From the experiment we found that mostly PYP students choose imported rice rather than local rice because it is more flavourful and softer. From 35 respondents, more than 50% students choose local rice because it's more tasty. 65% students choose imported rice because it's more flavourful. 68% students choose imported rice because it's more chewy, and 51% students choose imported rice because of the taste.
Our conclusion is, the technology of agriculture in other countries such as Japan and Thailand is better than ours.
To learn more about food self-sufficiency, we invited Ms. Fildzah as nutritionist to learn more about the alternative food beside rice. We found that corn is more nutritious than rice. It means we can consume other carbohydrates such as corn, cassava, and potato as alternatives to replace rice as our main food. We also learn about healthy plate, a balanced meal provides a variety of nutrients your body needs to function at its best including carbohydrates, proteins, and vitamins.
STEP 5: MONITORING THE EXHIBITION
Using the strategy of generalization, these are ten reasons why we do our PYP Exhibition. We already did all of the transition in the PYP Exhibition journey. Some of them are:
We communicate to K1 students about our topic, because they are learning the use of plants which in our learning continuum.
We plant kangkung / water spinach and taking care of them.
STEP 6: SHARING THE EXHIBITION
The final step of the exhibition is sharing the exhibition. We take action by doing urban farming, learn about hydroponic technic in agriculture and planting daun kelor in the BPSIP (Balai Penerapan Standar Instrumen Pertanian) of Ministry of Agriculture
We also do advocacy and participation by teaching K1 and G1 students how to plant water spinach since K1 and G1 students are learning about plants and balanced lifestyle.
Additionally, we would like to propose a new school catering menu that offers alternative sources of carbohydrates to rice, based on our consultation with a nutritionist.
As a reflection on last year’s PYP Exhibition, which also focused on planting, we interview grade 6 students to learn more about the action they took. From this, we developed the Holistic Program Urban Gardening Planner to support sustainability.
Here, we would like to propose Urban Gardening as a new Holistic Program activity for next year. We are committed to running this program under the guidance of our mentors.
PYP EXHIBITION PANEL
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