East Java Governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa emphasized that cross-sector collaboration is the main key to making the local province the largest sugar producer and one of the national rice granaries.
"Collaboration is key. East Java has strong capital to continue contributing to Indonesia, as the nation's largest sugar producer and one of Indonesia's rice granaries," Khofifah said in an official statement received in Malang City, East Java, on Saturday.
East Java is able to contribute 51% to national sugar production, where in 2025 the production figure for white crystal sugar in the local area is 1.34 million tons.
Then, in 2026, East Java was entrusted with implementing a ratoon removal program on 48,315 hectares of land and a sugarcane expansion program covering 6,582 hectares.
Thus, the total target for sugarcane development reaches 54,897 hectares spread across 24 sugarcane-producing districts.
Then for rice, based on data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), the harvested area of this commodity in East Java in 2025 will reach around 1.84 million hectares, an increase of 13.88 percent compared to the previous year.
Rice production during that period reached 10.44 million tons of dry milled grain (GKG), a 12.60 percent increase compared to 2024.
