Sugar is a strategic commodity with wide power benefits,
both for households and industry. Sugar consumption in the country reached 5.7
million tons / year in 2014, while production capacity that can be achieved by
the sugar mill industry reached 2.6 million tons / year, so there are still
shortages of 3.1 million / year be met from imported sugar.
Based on structural studies, the sugar industry faces
problems of both external, relating to the sugar policy is not conducive, and
internal factors, which are associated with lower productivity. The two main
problems resulted in the national sugar industry to be inefficient and low
competitiveness.
