Zulhas dan Bamsoet Panen Padi di Banyuasin, Buktikan Produksi Beras Berlimpah
Indonesian House Speaker Supports Food Self-sufficiency
Editor : M. Achsan Atjo
Translator : Dhelia Gani
Banyuasin, Sumsel (B2B) - Ketua MPR RI Zulkifli Hasan dan Ketua DPR RI Bambang Soesatyo, yang akrab disapa media sebagai Zulhas dan Bamsoet, tampak cekatan melakukan panen padi lahan rawa di Kabupaten Banyuasin, Provinsi Sumatera Selatan pada Senin (29/1) didampingi Menteri Pertanian Andi Amran Sulaiman dan Kepala Kantor Staf Kepresidenan, Moeldoko.
"Menteri terkait seharusnya membatalkan impor beras. Setuju nggak? " tanya Zulhas kepada pers usai panen, yang disambut tempik sorak oleh para petani setempat yang menolak beras impor masuk ke Indonesia dalam waktu dekat.
Ketika ditanya tentang adanya dugaan aksi mafia pangan di belakang kebijakan impor beras, "ini kan ada Satgas Pangan dari Polri yang seharusnya bertindak," kata Zulhas yang juga Ketua Umum Partai Amanat Nasional (PAN) usai panen di Desa Upang Marga, Kecamatan Air Saleh.
Dia meyakini kegigihan dan komitmen Mentan Amran Sulaiman membela kepentingan petani dan rakyat sebagai konsumen, dan hampir setiap hari berada di lapangan untuk mendorong dan memantau realisasi peningkatan produksi pangan strategis khususnya padi.
"Mentan lapor ke saya bahwa dimana-mana panen raya, apa benar? Makanya saya dan Ketua DPR ke sini untuk melihat langsung hasil panen petani dan ternyata Mentan bicara benar," katanya seraya menunjuk-nunjuk lokasi panen kepada pers yang mengerubunginya usai panen.
Tampak hadir Bupati Banyuasin, Supriyono; Kabareskrim Polri, Komjen Ari Dono; Wakil Kasad, Letjen TNI Tatang Sulaiman; Kepala Satgas Pangan Irjen Setyo Wasisto; dan Ketua Komisi Pengawas Persaingan Usaha (KPPU) Syarkawi Rauf.
Hasil Panen Banyuasin
Dalam laporannya, Mentan memaparkan tentang luas sawah siap panen di Desa Upang Marga, Kecamatan Air Saleh, mencapai 2.300 hektare dengan potensi panen 6-7 ton gabah kering giling (GKG) per hektar. Sementara luasan lahan di Kecamatan Air Saleh mencapai 24.000 hektar dengan luas lahan sawah di Banyuasin mencapai 203.000 hektar. Sebelum ada upaya khusus (upsus) potensi area tanam hanya 193.000 hektar dengan produktivitas maksimal 4,5 ton.
"Sementara luas sawah siap panen di Banyuasin pada Januari dan Februari 2018 mencapai 131.168 hektar dengan perkiraan hasil 432.873 ton beras sehingga surplus beras setelah dikonsumsi penduduk setempat," kata Mentan yang didampingi Dirjen Prasarana Sarana Pertanian (PSP) Kementan, Pending Dadih Permana.
Sementara untuk Sumsel, total panen padi mencapai 238.831 hektar atau setara 767.989 ton beras. Jumlah produksi beras itu dikonsumsi sekitar 140.539 ton sehingga Sumsel akan surplus beras sekitar 626.000 ton pada Januari dan Februari 2018. "Sumbangan surplus Sumsel memberikan nilai yang besar."
Banyuasin of South Sumatra (B2B) - Chairman of the People´s Consultative Assembly of Indonesia Zulkifli Hasan and House Speaker Bambang Soesatyo doing rice harvest of swamp land in Banyuasin district of South Sumatera province here on Monday (January 29) accompanied by Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman and and Chief of Staff of the Presidential Office, Moeldoko.
"The relevant minister should cancel the rice imports," Mr Hasan told the press after the rice harvest and greeted by local farmers who refused imported rice into Indonesia.
Related to the alleged food mafia behind the rice import policy, "There is a police officer who should act," said Mr Hasan, who is also Chairman of the National Mandate Party after the rice harvest in Upang Marga village of Air Saleh subdistrict.
He believes the tenacity and commitment of Minister Sulaiman defends the interests of farmers and the people as consumers, and he is almost daily in the field to encourage and monitor increased rice production.
"Minister Sulaiman reports to me about the rice harvest across the country, is that right? So I and the House Speaker came here to see directly, it turns out Minister Sulaiman not lie," he said.
It was attended by Banyuasin Regent, Supriyono; Head of National Police Investigation and Crime, Commissioner General Ari Dono; Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army, Lt. Gen. Tatang Sulaiman; Head of Special Police Unit, Inspector General Setyo Wasisto; and and Chairman of the Business Competition Supervisory Commission, Syarkawi Rauf.
Rice Harvest Area
In his report, Minister Sulaiman explained about paddy fields ready for rice harvest in Upang Marga village of Air Saleh subdistrict reached reached 2,300 hectares with the potential to harvest 7 tons of dry milled grain per hectare. Before there was a special program to increase rice production, the potential of planting area is only 193,000 hectares and maximum productivity is 4.5 tons.
"While the area of paddy fields ready to harvest in Banyuasin in January and February 2018 reached 131,168 hectares with an estimated yield of 432,873 tons of rice so that the surplus of rice after consumption of local residents," Minister Sulaiman said.
While for South Sumatra province, the total rice harvest reached 238,831 hectares or equivalent to 767,989 tons of rice. Rice production for consumption is around 140,539 tons or a surplus of 626,000 tons in January and February 2018.
