Indonesian food policy insights and challenges of integrating food security and food sovereignty

This research paper provides an understanding about current debate related to food discourse, especially referring to the debate that contradicts the concept of food security and food sovereignty as the only solution above every food problems underneath. Rather than separating the two concepts even further, this research aims to seek the middle way on questioned whether two concepts can be integrated in the sense of theoretical and empirical sphere. The motivation behind this research was a missing clarification about linkage between the two main concepts in food discourse. Often, the discussion of one concept makes the other concept looks wrong, failed or irrational. This research examines the new perspective on how to look each concept separately from the intervention of other factors, then mapped out the concept and see it through for a chance of complimentary space for each other. To support the research, first step needed was to build a solid analytical framework by taking food paradigm theory in relation with the two concepts, then applying the theoretical concept into a particular place of Indonesia where the government has just adopted food sovereignty concept into a policy document and claimed to emphasize it in order to achieve food security.