The increasing number of people in the world and extreme weather recently make each country must consider and make appropriate plans to secure their food stocks, one of them is Indonesian.
Now the Indonesian government continues to encourage its citizens aggressively to change their staple foods from rice to other food (Read: Selamat Tinggal Beras, Selamat Datang Singkong). Different with other country resident, like American people or Europe, Indonesia is now listed as the world's largest rice-consuming, almost 2 times of its neighboring countries rice consuming like Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.
Comparison between the growth of rice consumption of Indonesian society and the growth of domestic rice production is not balanced, often times Indonesia has to import rice from other countries such as Thailand and Vietnam to secure stockpiles of Indonesian rice.
The Center for Food Safety Consumption and Food Security Agency (BKP) Machmur Mulyono said the movement to eat less rice is part of government efforts to diversify the success of the national food. This is for food dependence on rice / rice is not too high so that the stability of food can stay awake.
One program that created last year, One Day Without Rice or One day No Rice, now will be disseminated to the public again. This is to advise the public to change rice as their staple food with other foods, although only one day.
Varied public opinion also arises to response the government program of One Day Without Rice. Some people said that they can do it, but others say if they can not replace rice as their staple food.
If we viewed deeply about the natural resources in Indonesia, there is no difficulty to replace rice as a staple food. Indonesia currently has 77 kinds of food that can substitute the rice, such as maize, potato and cassava. Indonesia is also known rich of its fisheries resource.
So, are the people of Indonesia ready to follow the One Day Without Rice program and replace rice as their staple food.
