Indonesia has abundant natural resources including fertile soil for agriculture in Java and Sumatra, minerals for mining in Borneo, and biodiversity throughout the country. However, many Indonesians live in poverty despite these natural resources due to a focus on industrialization over agriculture and low prices of imported farm products. To improve this, Indonesia should better utilize and process its natural resources domestically, improve agricultural and mining outputs for export, and support farmers to rely less on imports and more on domestic production.
Indonesia has abundant natural resources including fertile soil for agriculture in Java and Sumatra, minerals for mining in Borneo, and biodiversity throughout the country. However, many Indonesians live in poverty despite these natural resources due to a focus on industrialization over agriculture and low prices of imported farm products. To improve this, Indonesia should better utilize and process its natural resources domestically, improve agricultural and mining outputs for export, and support farmers to rely less on imports and more on domestic production.
Indonesia has abundant natural resources including fertile soil for agriculture in Java and Sumatra, minerals for mining in Borneo, and biodiversity throughout the country. However, many Indonesians live in poverty despite these natural resources due to a focus on industrialization over agriculture and low prices of imported farm products. To improve this, Indonesia should better utilize and process its natural resources domestically, improve agricultural and mining outputs for export, and support farmers to rely less on imports and more on domestic production.
Indonesia is a state who has many natural resources. In Java and
Sumatra, there is a fertile soil and it is used for agriculture activities. In Borneo, there are so much mineral and it is one of a place which is used for mining industry. Indonesia as a tropical rain area which is rich in biodiversity and it envelops most of the land in indonesia. The spacious sea that embraces the whole archipelago with healthy fishes and high amount of protein in it. But the economic conditions and quality of human resources in indonesia is such an unfortunate. Although having so many natural resources, people out there are starving and squalid without any prosperous. One of the factors it happens is because indonesia dreamed too much about being an industrialized country which will always develop projects in the field of industry. Futhermore, we can see now that Indonesua was agricultural country. Being an agricultural country, all of our food needs must be fulfilled. But the reality Indonesa still need to import from the other country. The low selling price of farm product from overseas that makes the businessman prefer it for being resale in Indonesia. This what makes all the natural resources in Indonesia have no point at all. The efforts that should we do are utilize and process all the natural resources that we have. There is also a proper effort to do is improve the agricultural products or minning result and being export to the other country. Improve various farms with provide assistance of fertilizer for all farmers in Indonesia, and do not rely on overseas agricultural products. If all of this efforts can be applied, our natural resourcesin Indonesia can be improve well. So, our economy level can be increased well.