Jakarta, Nov. 8 -- Indonesia aims to achieve self-sufficiency in white sugar by 2026 as part of a national drive to strengthen food security and revive the country's once-thriving sugar industry, Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman said on Friday.

"Next year we will be self-sufficient in white sugar," Sulaiman said after a meeting on the Plantation and Industry Downstream Program with Investment Minister Rosan Perkasa Roeslani and Danantara CEO Rosan Perkasa Roeslani at the Agriculture Ministry.

The government targets full self-sufficiency in consumer sugar within three to four years by increasing sugarcane productivity and modernizing mills.

Sulaiman said the initiative marks a key step in strengthening the plantation sector and ...