Posted on 11/13/2022 8:41:47 PM PST by FarCenter
JAKARTA – As Ukrainian and Russian forces battled each other on the other side of the world, Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto was the featured speaker at a conference on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali which addressed the spiraling food crisis the conflict has created.
Over the space of an hour, the retired general managed to avoid mentioning Ukraine once, instead demonstrating an impressive grasp of food security issues and agriculture in general that seemed at odds with his military background.
“In my opinion, the main topic of the whole G20 summit should be about food security,” he said, echoing the sentiments of President Joko Widodo who has been looking at ways for the leaders to get beyond the narrow and contentious issue of Ukraine.
But the war between two of the world’s biggest grain suppliers, which has exacerbated the fragility of the world’s food supply, is proving impossible to ignore. “We should say ‘Russia, pull out now,’” former NATO commander General Wesley Clark bluntly told the forum.
It is already clear US President Joe Biden and other G7 leaders will never agree to a joint communique – or even a chairman’s statement – that does not condemn Russian aggression, which shows no sign of abating despite recent setbacks.
Summit observers believe that as host, and a neutral one at that, the only path available for Widodo may be a closing address on Wednesday in which he puts his own emphasis on health and food supply issues where some progress appears to be achievable.
Although he has shown little interest in international affairs until now unless there are economic benefits to be gained from it, there are signs the former town mayor may be warming to the task in the eighth year of his eventful presidency.
When Indonesia took over the chairmanship of ASEAN at its summit in Phnom Penh last week, he was uncharacteristically forthright on the difficult question of Myanmar and in warning that the organization would not be the proxy of any power.
Over 4,200,000,000 people live within 3000 miles of Bangkok. That's over half of the world's population of 8 billion.
Cutting off food is a way to control.
We are marching into Marxism.
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Well worth your time. Interviews with Americans who left communist countries and telling us what they saw in their former countries is happening here and across the planet.
Those at the G20 should be forced to eat crickets and roaches since they want the rest of us to it.
The Global shortage of Fertilizer is going to become acute this next year.
Years of overfertilizing helped us get through the current harvest without fertilizing. The next harvest yields are going to crash.
Indonesia has enormous duties on anything imported, from electronics and household items and any food items.
I never paid this, but for a quart sized jar of Prego Italian sauce would cost about $8.50 USD. Fake rice from china is cheap though...
Interesting. Thanks for posting. Is this a private farm? I see lots of corporate farms traveling through the bread bowl.
Fake rice?
I mean, fake cops (plywood) are one thing, but I never heard of fake rice...
My wife is a Filipina and picky about her rice, so, I’m dreading a rice shortage if it occurs. The price has risen a lot as it is...
Regular rice, broken rice, and rice looking plastic polymers that soften when cooked.
No rice, no power as my Bali “mother” used to tell me.
Dang, hard to imagine that manufactured plastic polymers shaped to look like rice & that soften when cooked would be cheaper than adding, say, processed & shaped soybean meal. But, I guess anything is possible in a country that plants fake 2D cops along the roadside...
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