THE IMPACT OF DEPENDENCE ON RICE IMPORT POLICY TOWARDS INDONESIAN FOOD SECURITY

The agricultural is a major sector in providing food for the community needs. As we know, rice is the largest agricultural products owned by Indonesia. Indonesia has an important role as the third largest rice producer in the world after China and India. But in the reality, Indonesia as the third largest rice producer in the world have problems going to the inability of the State to meet the domestic rice needs. Consequently, when the agricultural sector collapsed and was not able to meet food needs, especially the needs of the rice, it will create the conditions for the food crisis. To maintain rice production, the government is forced to rely on rice import policy, which in turn makes Indonesia is always dependent on the supply of imported rice. When associated with dependency theory, agricultural development in Indonesia is actually ideologically and praxis has undergone a period of transformation. Agricultural development in Indonesia has led to stagnation and could threaten food sovereignty and food security. The result of research shows that as a solution, dependency theory offers two alternatives: first, reducing the relationship with imported rice. Second, Indonesia had to make a breakthrough by creating food security through policies that support the growth of the national rice production. This research uses qualitative research, descriptive approach, and emphasizes on literature study. Keywords: Dependency, Rice Import Policy, Food Securit