ArticlePublic health nutrition2025
Looking towards the sweet, sweet future: a political economy analysis of sugar and nutrition policy in Indonesia.
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- Public policies addressing unhealthy diets in the South-East Asia region: identifying and countering the arguments that undermine policy implementation.Health policy and planning · 2026Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo identify politico-economic factors relating to policy surrounding the production, processing and trade of sugar in Indonesia and identify strategies to support improved integration of national nutrition and food security priorities with respect to sugar.
designThis study was a qualitative policy analysis, informed by political economy and power analysis approaches and drawing on both documentary policy data and interviews.
settingIndonesia.
participantsInterviewees from various national and sub-national government and non-government sectors, with expertise in health and food safety (
resultsSugar was articulated as a policy priority in three distinct ways: (1) sugar as an economic good; (2) sugar in relation to health and (3) sugar as a commodity for food security. High political priority was given to national economic development, as well as concerns relating to farmer rights and welfare. Nutrition priorities and objectives to reduce sugar consumption were addressed in health policies; however, they were not reflected in production and economic policies promoting sugar.
conclusionsCreating opportunities to diversify agricultural production and ensuring a just transition to protect the livelihoods of sugar farmers in Indonesia will be crucial in enabling the achievement of nutrition priorities to reduce sugar consumption.
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