Bulog says 4.5 million tonnes of government rice stocks are the highest in ASEAN, starts drafting 2027 balance

Bulog president director Ahmad Rizal Ramdhani said Indonesia's government rice reserves stood at about 4.5 million tonnes as of Monday, which the agency claims is the highest in ASEAN, against a year-end minimum target of 3 million tonnes. The agency is drafting its 2027 rice and logistics balance with deliberately conservative targets, citing El Niño and global supply uncertainty. About 830,000 tonnes of the additional SPHP allocation remains undistributed, with a 20 November distribution deadline.

Premium rice distribution has reached 300,000 tonnes — double the 2026 target of 150,000 tonnes — under the rice-for-rice programme, and Bulog is pursuing roughly 200,000 tonnes more premium stock for the Christmas–New Year and Ramadan season, when the holidays fall close together next year. Agriculture ministry officials separately confirmed Indonesia is in its second consecutive year without rice imports. The cautious 2027 planning posture matters for the wider supply chain: requirements that enter the state logistics balance in this quarter become next year's procurement, and storing very large stocks for long periods without quality degradation becomes an active management problem under El Niño conditions forecast to persist into 2027.