Bulog Ready to Release Another 150,000 Tonnes of SPHP Corn at Rp5,000 per Kilogram
Perum Bulog is ready to distribute an additional 150,000 tonnes of corn under Indonesia's SPHP food supply and price stabilisation programme, President Director Ahmad Rizal Ramdhani said in Jakarta on 9 September 2026. The grain is already held in Bulog warehouses and is supplied at Rp5,000 per kilogram, with priority for small and medium smallholder livestock farmers. The extra allocation responds to feed demand generated by the Free Nutritious Meals programme.
Indonesia's state logistics agency Perum Bulog is ready to distribute an additional 150,000 tonnes of corn under the government's food supply and price stabilisation programme, known by its Indonesian acronym SPHP, President Director Ahmad Rizal Ramdhani said in Jakarta on Wednesday, 9 September 2026. His comments were reported by metrotvnews.com, citing the state news agency Antara.
Volume already agreed, grain already in the warehouse
Rizal said the additional allocation has been approved and that the corn is physically available in Bulog's warehouse network. “This SPHP corn, praise be to God, an addition of 150,000 tonnes has been agreed. As it happens it is also available in Bulog's warehouses, and hopefully this can support the farmers who are having difficulty with feed,” he said in comments to metrotvnews.com.
SPHP is the mechanism through which Bulog moves reserve stock into the market to stabilise supply and prices. Corn distributed under it goes to designated buyer groups at an administered price rather than through open commercial sales.
The distinction matters commercially. A release drawn from existing stock reaches buyers without a new procurement tender or an import decision, so the supply effect is immediate rather than deferred.
Rp5,000 per kilogram for smallholder livestock farmers
The government is supplying SPHP corn at Rp5,000 per kilogram, according to Rizal. That equals Rp5 million per tonne, or roughly Rp750 billion for the full 150,000 tonnes at the administered price.
Priority goes to small and medium scale independent livestock farmers — peternak rakyat — so that they can obtain feed raw material at a more affordable price, Rizal said. He described the target group as producers currently struggling to secure feed, and framed the price support as a way to keep their businesses running.
Free meals programme is pulling feed demand higher
The stated driver behind the extra allocation is the Makan Bergizi Gratis (MBG) free nutritious meals programme. According to Rizal, the programme is lifting demand for eggs, meat and other livestock commodities, which in turn raises requirements for feed corn.
Corn is the main energy component of most poultry rations, so budget-funded growth in protein consumption transmits directly into grain demand. Bulog's response — physical corn released at a fixed price to the least hedged part of the sector — is aimed at that transmission point rather than at the wholesale market as a whole.
What the announcement does not disclose
Several parameters that matter to the market were not specified:
- the period over which the 150,000 tonnes will be released, and the monthly run rate;
- the regional split of the allocation and any per-farmer purchase limits;
- how the released stock will be replenished — from the domestic harvest or from imports — and the size of the base SPHP corn allocation to which the extra volume is added.
Those variables determine whether the effect is limited to cheaper feed for smallholders or also reaches farmgate and wholesale corn prices in Indonesia. Bulog's statement covers availability and price for one buyer group; it does not set out the sourcing plan behind it.
