MINDRATNO, a rice farmer in the village of Undaan Tengah in the Central Java district of Kudus, is not selling the rice he just harvested late last month. He is keeping 6 tons of the unhulled rice, saying “No, I’m not selling,” to a rice trader who offered to buy the rice at a good price.

Offered a price of Rp4,000 a kilo, far above Rp2,650, the price set by the government, Mindratno, owner of 2 hectares of rice farm, didn’t change his