Jakarta, May 16 -- President Prabowo Subianto said on Saturday he would take responsibility if Indonesians experienced hunger, stressing that food security was a core duty under the mandate entrusted to him as head of state.

Speaking at the inauguration of 1,061 Red and White Village Cooperative Units in Nganjuk, East Java, Prabowo said he carried the people's sovereign mandate as president.

"As president, I am responsible. I have taken an oath and I am accountable. If this nation goes hungry, I am responsible," Prabowo said, according to a livestream on the Presidential Secretariat's YouTube channel.

Prabowo also said he had instructed Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman and his team to achieve food self-sufficiency within four y...