{
  "id": 7924885,
  "title": "Prabowo Reaffirms Focus on Food Security, Energy and Poverty",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/prabowo-reaffirms-focus-on-food-security-energy-and-poverty",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-17T01:54:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Tempo.co English",
    "slug": "tempo-co-english",
    "url": "https://en.tempo.co/read/2119744/prabowo-reaffirms-focus-on-food-security-energy-and-poverty"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto reiterated the government's focus on critical areas that underpin the nation's strength and self-reliance: food and energy security, poverty alleviation, and job creation. In an interview with the President Prabowo Answers program, he highlighted food security as the paramount priority to ensure basic needs are met. Prabowo stated, \"For me, the most fundamental thing is securing the food supply.\"\n\nThe President also emphasized efforts to secure fuel supplies, with the development of palm oil-based biofuels, including B50, and large-scale solar energy projects being pursued. Beyond these, he acknowledged the government's attention to child hunger, stunting, and both absolute and extreme poverty as urgent matters. Prabowo underscored, \"For me, the issues we must immediately address are child hunger, stunting, and absolute or extreme poverty.\"\n\nThe administration's approach to these challenges aligns with an agenda of budget efficiency and preventing state fund leakage, with resources channeled into productive sectors that can generate foreign exchange and create employment. In the economic sector, the government is promoting downstreaming to enhance the domestic value-added of natural resources, launching projects expected to bolster national industries and generate employment.\n\nCommunity economy strengthening is being achieved through the development of Merah Putih Village Cooperatives and Merah Putih Fishing Villages, aiming to strengthen supply chains, increase community income, and reduce logistics costs. Prabowo highlighted that integrating fishing villages with Merah Putih Village Cooperatives would provide market certainty for fishermen's catches and support community protein needs. He concluded, \"We want everything to move faster, but God willing, we will succeed in achieving our goals.\"",
  "summary": "Prabowo says Indonesia is focusing on food and energy security, poverty reduction, job creation and strengthening domestic industries.",
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  "editors_take": null,
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}