date:Oct 25, 2013
d the Association of Sugarcane Farmers.
The government is killing sugarcane farmers by allowing new sugar refineries and white sugar mills that use imports to be built in Indonesia, Chairman Arum Sabil said.
Southeast Asia's biggest economy has abandoned a goal of attaining self-sufficiency in white sugar by 2014, after efforts to lift output got snarled in red tape over land licences, besides competition for land and under-investment.
Indonesia ships in raw sugar from Australia, Brazil and T