Preserving Food Availability Preserving Food Affordability

55 LAPORAN TAHUNAN Annual Report BIDANG USAHA LINE OF BUSINESS The Government assigns Perum BULOG to conduct business of staple food logisticin Public Services activities or Public Service Obligation PSO based in Presidential Instruction Inpres No. 5 of year 2015 dated March 17, 2015 regarding the Policies of Procurement of GrainRice and Distribution of Rice by Government. Through the above Inpres, Perum BULOG has duties to implement the mandate of Government in order to realize National Food Sovereignty by carrying out three 3 important principles, which are:

1. Preserving Food Availability

Perum BULOG implement the policy of procurement of grainrice. In maintaining the availability to keep suficent stock, Perum BULOG prioritizesthe procurement through purchasing of domestic grain rice DN under Government Purchasing Price HPP. The procurement of grainrice in DN has beneits as: 1 assurance of market availability to the spirit of farmers for producing rice, with absorption target 5-9 from total production per year, 2 price guarantee based on Government provisions in anticipating for the falling price during the harvest time, 3 assurance of rural economic development as multiplier effect to market and price guarantee. If domestic production insuficient to keep the stock availability, Perum BULOG may carry out overseas procurement, as stated on Government’s provisions.

2. Preserving Food Affordability

Perum BULOG provides stock and distributes the rice based on Government’s provisions. In maintaining the food affordability, Government assigns Perum BULOG to distribute subsidized rice Rastra to low income society. The distribution of Rastra is a programs of social protection to society in form of targeted food subsidy, which is affordable physically and price, and protecting the food insecurity households from the threat of malnutrition. Affordable food is also distributed to several certain condirion such as natural disasters or for price controls which soaring high by using Government Rice Reserves CBP. Public Services Obligation PSO Pemerintah menugaskan Perum BULOG untuk menyelenggarakan usaha logistik pangan pokok dalam kegiatan Pelayanan Publik atau Public Service Obligation PSO berdasarkan Inpres Inpres Nomor 5 Tahun 2015 tanggal 17 Maret 2015 tentang Kebijakan Pengadaan GabahBeras dan Penyaluran Beras oleh Pemerintah. Melalui Inpres tersebut, Perum BULOG bertugas melaksanakan amanat Pemerintah dalam mewujudkan Kedaulatan Pangan Nasional dengan menjalankan tiga 3 prinsip penting, yaitu:

1. Menjaga Ketersediaan Pangan