President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyonos deadline of January 5 came and went. By that Monday Bulog, the state-owned company that is tasked with procuring and securing supply of food, especially rice, was able to sign a purchase contract of 21.900 tons of rice from domestic suppliers.

That was far below the threshold limit of government rice supplies in the Bulog warehouse, which stands at 1 million tons. In other words, it was 132,000 tons less. The d