Jakarta, April 4 -- Indonesia's Forestry Ministry reaffirmed its commitment to supporting sustainable agriculture and the development of technology to help achieve food self-sufficiency.

"Going forward, we are ready to support and collaborate to restore ecosystems and achieve food self-sufficiency," Deputy Forestry Minister Rohmat Marzuki said in a statement on Saturday.

As a concrete step, he noted, optimizing land use will become a priority, particularly in non-forested areas.

"Open, non-forested land can be optimized as a source of seeds, agricultural downstreaming, and the agroforestry concept, which is one of our priority programs at the ministry," he said.

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