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Cirebon sugar farmers head to Jakarta to protest at presidential palace

From Republika · () Indonesian

Translated from Indonesian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Hundreds of sugar-cane farmers from Cirebon departed for Jakarta on August 31 to join a planned protest outside the State Palace.
  • The farmers want the government to raise the purchase price for their sugar from 15,500 rupiah to 16,500 rupiah per kilogram.
  • Their representative said earlier lobbying efforts at the ministry level had not produced an agreement.

Hundreds of sugar-cane farmers from Cirebon were traveling to Jakarta to press the government for a higher purchase price for farmers’ sugar.

The farmers from Cirebon Regency planned to join sugar-cane growers from other regions at a demonstration outside Jakarta’s State Palace on September 1. Mae Azhar, a representative of the Indonesian People’s Sugar Farmers Association in Cirebon, confirmed their departure on the night of August 31.

The farmers are seeking an increase in the purchase price from 15,500 rupiah to 16,500 rupiah per kilogram. Mae said the proposed increase reflected the higher production costs farmers have been carrying.

The group had previously tried to present its demands through communication and lobbying with government ministries. Mae said those efforts had not yet produced the agreement farmers wanted, prompting them to take their demands to the planned protest.

We are leaving tonight.

— Mae AzharThe Cirebon farmers’ representative confirmed their departure for Jakarta.
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Originally published by Republika in Indonesian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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