Food security in Java Island, Indonesia: Panel data of ordinary least square approach

Abstract

Food security over the past few years has become a major problem faced by developing countries, including Indonesia, and needs to be resolved properly. Therefore, this study aims to determine the factors that influence the food security of the population in Java Island. The data used in this study were secondary data taken from the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) in 2008-2017, namely data on real prices of cooking oil, real sugar prices, real beef prices, real price of rice, food and non-food expenditures, real per capita income, and area of agricultural land. The data was analyzed using a fixed effect regression panel data model. The results of the study show that the factors influencing the share of food expenditure in Java Island were the variables of real prices of rice and real per capita income.