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Indonesia imports about 82% of its milk, agriculture minister says
Indonesia imports about 82% of the milk it needs, Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman said at a government meeting in Jakarta.
In 2025, the country needed about 4.68 million tonnes of milk, while local farms produced about 820,900 tonnes and imports supplied about 3.86 million tonnes.
Amran said cheap imported milk makes it harder for domestic dairy farmers to compete.
He warned that imports could meet all of Indonesia’s milk needs within a few years if the government does not change how the market is regulated and protect local producers.
He also said imported milk may be bought while locally produced milk goes unused and is wasted.
Amran asked the home affairs minister to help coordinate a response and said the Agriculture Ministry had written to the national police chief, without detailing the action sought or who might be targeted.
He said the government should address the issue before it grows and leads to further protests.
Indonesia imports about 82% of its milk needs, Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman said.
He warned that the share could reach 100% within a few years if the government does not address market rules and protect domestic dairy farmers.
Amran said cheap imported milk was putting domestic production at a competitive disadvantage.
Data cited for 2025 showed national milk needs of about 4.68 million tonnes, imports of about 3.86 million tonnes and domestic production of about 820,900 tonnes.
He called for stronger government coordination to address the issue.
- Who
- Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman.
- What
- He said about 82% of Indonesia’s milk needs are met by imports and warned the share could rise.
- When
- He made the remarks on Monday, 12 October 2026.
- Where
- At a regional inflation-control coordination meeting at the Ministry of Home Affairs in Central Jakarta.
- Why
- He said cheap imported milk was pressuring domestic producers and called for changes to market rules and stronger protection for local dairy farmers.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
This is how it happens: selling milk very cheaply, and in the end 82 percent is imported; later it will be 100 percent, perhaps in three years. This is how they behave.
If possible, let’s resolve this within six months; I will make sure of it.
It is like soybeans from America, from major superpower countries, being pitted against Mike Tyson, with Mike Tyson facing a junior high school student without a referee. They would be finished, wiped out. That is the illustration.
Indonesia’s soybean production reached a high of about 1.87 million tonnes, according to Amran.
Indonesia needed about 4.68 million tonnes of milk, imported about 3.86 million tonnes and produced about 820,900 tonnes domestically.
Amran said at a coordination meeting in Jakarta that imports meet about 82% of the country’s milk needs.
- Import share
- About 82% of Indonesia’s milk needs
- Milk needs in 2025
- About 4.68 million tonnes
- Milk imports in 2025
- About 3.86 million tonnes
- Domestic milk production in 2025
- About 820,900 tonnes
- Possible future import share
- 100% within a few years, Amran warned
Sources
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