APPERTANI

On Friday, October 10, 2025, two APPERTANI experts, Prof. Achmad Suryana and Assoc. Prof. Haryono, served as resource persons at a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) on the theme “Accelerating Agricultural Modernization to Support Food Self-Sufficiency” organized by the Agency for Agricultural Assembly and Modernization (BRMP) at the Sahira Hotel, Bogor. This FGD was attended by various parties, including BRIN, BRMP, APPERTANI, IRRI, universities, and others. […]

INTRODUCTION The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet for Physiology or Medicine issued a press release on October 7, 2024, announcing the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. This year’s Nobel Prize honors these two scientists for their discovery of the fundamental principles of how […]

Closed Discussion Prospects for Indonesia-US Digital Technology Cooperation in Agriculture Jakarta, September 12th 2025 According to the plans of the Directorate General of American and European Affairs, the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs will hold the 4th Indonesia-U.S. Bilateral Digital Technology Dialogue in Chicago, USA, in November 2025. The meeting aims to support the Indonesian government’s Asta Cita program related to food security through exploration […]

The Economics of Rural Transformation and Public Policy Strategies and Methods for Successful Rural Transformation 5-8 May 2025 Bali, Indonesia Rural transformation is crucial for achieving overall economic growth, reducing poverty and bridging the gap between urban and rural areas. Worldwide, approximately 3.4 billion people reside in rural areas, with 90% of them living in developing countries. A significant portion of this population faces poverty. […]

Realizing Food Self-Sufficiency Food self-sufficiency is one of the manifestations of the nation’s independence to strengthen the country’s defense and security system, which is one of the items of Astacita as the President’s mission for 2025-2029. Achieving self-sufficiency in food, energy and water is one of the president’s priority programs among 17 other programs. Efforts to achieve food self-sufficiency are supported by the program of […]

The Need for Innovation in Increasing Agricultural Production Economic resilience needs to be strengthened as one of the seven agendas of the RPJMN-2020-2024. Innovation and investment as the main capital for economic resilience need to be increased in use to encourage sustainable economic growth, to provide welfare to the wider community in a fair and equitable manner. The contribution of economic growth in the agricultural […]