Kediri, East Java, July 15 -- Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman said here on Tuesday that the government is amending existing regulations to support the target of achieving national sugar self-sufficiency.

He noted that several regulatory adjustments have been approved based on proposals from Indonesian farmers, including a flat interest rate of 6 percent annually for smallholder business credit (KUR).

While visiting the Pesantren Baru Sugar Factory here on Tuesday, the minister said that the government has also allocated considerable funding for the national sugarcane plantation sector and provided a seed subsidy of Rp200 billion for new sugarcane plantings.

"We just received a budget of Rp200 billion for plasma farmers. This w...