Impact of Population Growth on Food Security

Abstract

Indonesia is a country with the fourth-largest population in the world. This will have an impact on the high demand for clothing, housing, and food, especially in Indone-sia's current food consumption is rice consumption per capita by the Indonesian population reaching 139 kg per capita per year and continues to increase every year. The total population of Indonesia is 265 million people, which indicates the need for rice per year based on a rough calculation, which is 33,470,400,000 kg (33,470 mil-lion tons) per year in 2017. The agricultural survey recorded that 81.3 million tons of rice per year were needed for Indonesian citizens. The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) said that rice production in 2017 reached 70.83 million tons of dry milled unhulled rice (GKG), this figure decreased by 450 thousand tons or 0.63 percent compared to 2013. Very large declines in rice production took place on the island of Java to 830 thousand tons, on the other hand outside Java experienced a depreciation of 390 thousand tons. Rice production decreased due to a decrease in the harvested area of 41.61 thousand hectares (ha) or 0.30 percent and a decrease in productivity of 0.17 quintals or ha (0.33%). It can be said that the real purpose of rice production in Indonesia is experiencing a sizable surplus, but what is feared is the shrinking of agricultural land which continues to be used for housing or other uses. The rapid development of the population and the failure of family planning programs in several countries make it a serious challenge in the context of providing food for the world's population in the future. The problem of this large population is not only an economic, social and environmental issue but is also related to political issues. Politically, a large population without serious action and predictions, especially those related to food, energy, environment, learning, health, and employment will have implications for the threat to national sovereignty and national security. The pace of the political crisis, which is currently accompanied by an economic crisis, poses a threat of starvation due to lack of food and energy supply and the environment has the potential to destroy the existence of a country.