Indonesia

Our work in the cocoa, coffee and rice sectors dates back to the late 2000s. As of 2017, Indonesia was one of the first countries where we started up our Good Food for Cities programme. Currently, we are running our Sustainable cocoa & coffee programme, Sustainable rice programme, and our Good Food for Cities programme in the cities of Depok, Bandung, Surakarta and Denpasar.

Sustainable Cocoa and Coffee programme highlights for 2025

Innovation, also in cocoa! In North Luwu District, we supported the Masagena cooperative in embracing smart farming technology to improve efficiency and quality. An automated, Internet of Things (IoT)-based irrigation system and a solar-powered drying house, both operated by smartphone, reduced labour and energy costs by approximately 50%, while strengthening consistency in seedling production and post-harvest drying processes. In South and West Sulawesi, we helped establish ASKOTA, an association of cooperatives within the cocoa landscape. They coordinate their supply, sustainability compliance and market access around a common business plan rather than operating as isolated entities. By embedding the collective market mechanism into a landscape‑level framework, market incentives can be aligned with environmental and social goals. At coffee sector level, Rikolto participated in the early development of the 2030 Collective Action Plan, a multi-stakeholder framework initiated by the Indonesian Sustainable Coffee Platform (SCOPI) and the Global Coffee Platform. Validated by 22 organisations, the plan aims to close 10% of the living income gap for 126,000 smallholder coffee farmers by 2030, by mobilising resources for aligned action on regenerative agriculture, financial literacy and enabling policies.

Sustainable Rice programme highlights for 2025

Farmer Field Schools (FFS) and demo plots have been running since 2020, but this year we’ve moved from small groups to a full village-level approach. Village leaders step up as champions, spreading sustainable practices among farmers groups and communities. The number of farmers we support increased by 57% and the local government in Klaten Regency officially adopted the FFS model to promote the growth of the local Srinuk rice variety. Thirty per cent of FFS participants are women, who also lead business units within the four cooperatives we support, turning broken rice into crackers and producing bio-inputs and seeds.

Good Food for Cities programme highlights for 2025

In 2025, Rikolto's work translated into concrete policy change at both city and national level. In Bandung, the city adopted a Food Security Master Plan for 2025–2030, embedding a food systems approach and multi-stakeholder collaboration into local food governance, a milestone that Rikolto and a local partner helped shape by facilitating the city's Food Smart City team throughout the roadmap development process. At national level, the Good Food at School initiative gained recognition in the design of Indonesia's National Free School Meal programme, with a representative of the Coordinating Ministry of Food visiting one of Rikolto's pilots in Surakarta to gather reference material for the Presidential Regulation governing the programme's implementation. At city level in Surakarta, the Health School Unit advisory group, a multi-stakeholder platform under the coordination of the city secretary, has committed to issuing a regulation on healthy school canteens, embedding Rikolto's Healthy School Canteen guideline into city policy. The guideline covers school food management, canteen infrastructure and facilities, food quality, food supply, and monitoring, evaluation, and promotion. Across Surakarta, Denpasar, and Bandung, 40 schools are in the process of adopting it.

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