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Indonesia

• Updates (2007-2008)

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Progress and Activities

2008 UPDATE

• National Workshop at Ministry of Agriculture Broadens SRI Support
The Ministry of Agriculture's Directorate-General of Food Crops hosted a workshop with over 200 participants in Jakarta on June 13, with three presentations. The Minister had planned to open the workshop but had to meet with the visiting Prime Minister of Australia. His statement of support for SRI was read by the Secretary-General of the Ministry. The presentations were made by Norman Uphoff on SRI: An Available Response to Rice Price Hikes, Water Shortages, Climate Change and Rising Fuel Costs; by Shuichi Sato on Six Years of Experience of SRI Practice in Eastern Indonesia and Iswandi Anas on Some Highlights of SRI Research in Indonesia. Dr. Anas, who serves as coordinator of the Indonesian Association for SRI (Ina-SRI), reports that the presentations and ensuing discussion have helped to gain more understanding of and support for SRI among Ministry personnel and other Indonesian institutions, including private sector.

• Broadening Alliance of Organizations Supporting SRI
In the government sector, both the Directorate of Water Resources in the Department of Public Works (PU) and the Directorate of Land and Water Resource Management in the Department of Agriculture are now supporting SRI training and extension. The Decentralized Irrigation System Improvement Project of PU, supported financially the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation (JIBC) and implemented with technical assistance from Nippon Koei, which has been focused on Eastern Indonesia will henceforth undertake SRI promotion throughout the country. The Agriculture Department's Directorate is also expanding its support for organic SRI training.

The NGO Aliksa Organic SRI Consultants is operating a training center at Nagrak in West Java south of Bogor and also a branch center in Depok in the southern Jakarta region. Its activities are supported by MEDCO, a major national foundation, which also is carrying out its own SRI support activities in various places. In January, MEDCO made a grant to Andalas University in West Sumatra to support research and training on organic SRI in that region. DISIMP has established a research center on the island of Lombok with land provided through PT Sampoerna, a major tobacco company. In Bali, an entrepreneur has made 80 hectares available for growing organic SRI for the tourism industry. The Microsoft Foundation is providing computers and internet connectivity to the Aliksa centers in Nagrak and Depok.

In West Java, about 10,000 farmers are using ‘organic SRI’ methods on 6,000 hectares. Both the Agriculture University at Bogor (IPB) and Andalas University in West Sumatra have research programs on SRI and are getting involved also in extension activities. DISIMP has supported expansion of SRI in Eastern Indonesia up to 5,000 hectares already, and this extent is likely to double for a number of years to come.

• Indonesian Association for SRI (Ina-SRI) and Discussion Group
The Indonesian Association for SRI (Ina-SRI) has been established in January, 2008, with cooperation from the Japanese Association for SRI (J-SRI). Faculty at the Agricultural University at Bogor (IPB) are managing the Yahoo group (discussion forum) for Ina-SRI which is facilitating sharing of experience and ideas among government, NGO, university, private sector and farmer participants in the group, as well as promoting collective problem-solving. This emerging constellation of SRI partners is discussed in a trip report by Norman Uphoff from his week-long visit to Indonesia in January 2008. Prof. Iswandi Anis, head of the Soil Biotechnology Laboratory in the IPB Department of Soil Sciences and Land Resources, is coordinating Ina-SRI together with Prof. Budi I. Setiawan in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

To subscribe to the Ina-SRI discussion forum, see instructions on the Ina-SRI's Yahoo Group website (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Ina-SRI/) or send an e-mail to: Ina-SRI-owner@yahoogroups.com.

2007 UPDATE
• President of Indonesia Makes Strong Endorsement of SRI
 Presiding at an 'SRI Harvest Festival' in Cianjur district, West Java, on July 30, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono made a strong statement of support for the spread of SRI within Indonesia and even the world, citing concerns about environmental quality and climate change as well as meeting the food requirements of a still-growing population. (See video clip as well as translations of Excerpts from the Organic SRI Harvest presided over by the Indonesian President and a Bahasa Indonesia report of the event on the president's website). The President was accompanied by the Minister of Agriculture and the Minister of Irrigation, whose respective ministries are now cooperating to extend knowledge of SRI to Indonesian farmers. The Ministry of Agriculture is funding farmer training in 39 districts in 14 provinces on organic SRI methods, both for the higher price that this rice can obtain in the market and for the more benign impact on soil and water resources. An interview with Shuichi Sato, team leader for the Japanese technical assistance team supporting SRI extension in Eastern Indonesia, appeared just before the event in the Jakarta Post.

• Nine seasons of results reported from Eastern Indonesia
Shuichi Sato, Nippon Koei team leader for the Decentralized Irrigation System Improvement Project in Eastern Region of Indonesia (DISIMP), has sent in cumulative results from 9 cropping seasons, from 2002 to 2006. The data set includes 12,133 on-farm comparisons covering a total SRI area of 9,429 ha in Nusa Tenggara and Sulawesi regions where DISIMP operates.

Average SRI increase of 3.34 t/ha represented a 78% average increase. Average wet season SRI yields were 7.78 t/ha vs. 4.56 t/ha (total SRI area was 4,380 t/ha with 5,521 farmers); dry season SRI yields were 7.47 t/ha vs. 4.03 t/ha (5,049 ha of SRI production with 6,612 farmers).

The total paddy production increase attributable to SRI methods 2002-2006 was 31,697 tons (3.34 t/ha x 9,429 ha). At $120/ton, this represents an addition of $3.8 million to farmers' income.

In the 2006 dry season, SRI area within the DISIMP project domain was limited to 3,758 ha due to serious water shortages in Lombok and main canal damage in the Kelara Karalloe scheme in Sulawesi. Otherwise, the project had expected that there to be a much larger SRI area last season.

• Indonesian NGO to promote Organic SRI established
In West Java, organic SRI was first practiced in 2000 by Mr. Alik Sutaryat who is the top agronomist on organic agriculture in Indonesia. By a continuous effort of his group to expand organic SRI trough a series of farmer training programs over 4 years, in the 2006/07 cropping season, organic SRI area in West Java has increased to 1,484 a (5,720 farmers). In February 2007, this group has established an Indonesian NGO named “Aliksa Organic SRI Consultant" (AOSC) headed by Mr. Alik. From March 2007, AOSC will commence a series of training for trainer (TOT) programs on organic SRI in 14 provinces under the SRI extension policy by the Ministry of Agriculture in Indonesia.

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