July 2, 2026
 

Indonesia's Banten province targets Jabodetabek poultry market using 14 feed mill base

Japfa Comfeed's Cikande facility, serving markets from West Java to West Kalimantan, still sources most of its corn from outside the province, highlighting a key supply chain gap.

The Governor of Indonesia's Banten province, Andra Soni, has identified the province's 14 feed mills and its proximity to the Jakarta metropolitan area as the basis for a push to make Banten a major supplier of broiler meat and eggs to the Jabodetabek market.

Andra made the remarks during a visit to Japfa Comfeed's Cikande facility in Serang Regency on 29 June 2026. He said the province is preparing a Productive Economic Business Assistance programme to encourage smallholder and cooperative-scale poultry farming, with layer operations targeted at household and community enterprise groups and broiler farming at medium-scale operators. Feed distribution is planned through provincial state enterprise PT Agribisnis Banten Mandiri and the Merah Putih Village Cooperative network.

Japfa Comfeed Director Azrul Arifin, who received the governor's delegation at the Cikande plant - operational since June 2000 and serving West Java, Jabodetabek, Banten and West Kalimantan - said industry development would benefit from stronger government policy support. He noted that corn, the primary feed raw material, is still predominantly sourced from outside Banten, pointing to a structural supply chain gap the province would need to address to fully realise its poultry sector ambitions.

Azrul said smallholder empowerment programmes would be most effective when targeting participants already prepared to run a business, and that capital assistance needed to be accompanied by technical training, mentoring and business analysis to ensure sustainable outcomes. "If organised in groups, supervision is far easier and the chances of success are much greater," he said.