A relational turn in Indonesian food security perspectives: connecting values in land, nutritional and planetary health

Food security debates in Indonesia increasingly extend beyond concerns of food availability, access, utilization, and stability. Environmental degradation, climate change, nutritional transitions, and competing land-use priorities highlight the need for broader perspectives that connect food systems with human and planetary well-being. This paper argues that a relational perspective can strengthen food-security analysis by emphasizing how food systems are embedded in relationships among people, landscapes, institutions, and ecological processes. Building on expanded food-security frameworks that include sustainability and agency, we examine four Indonesian policy arenas: landscape transitions in East Java, food-estate development in Merauke, school lunch programmes, and coastal protection along the North Java coast. These examples show how competing understandings of food security shape policy choices and development pathways, highlighting the importance of agency, identity, and ecological resilience in achieving long-term food security.

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