Achieving self-sufficiency in sugar is the right policy. But if the government is not careful, efforts to meet the domestic sugar demand will result in a bitter experience. The State-Owned Enterprises(SOE) Department, which two weeks ago handed over the management of the sugar factory in Ngadirejo, East Java to PT Kencana Gula Manis, needs to listen to this message carefully. Using a 25-year work system and operational system, Kencana promises to