a FAO country office in 1978. The agriculture sector of the republic has been supervised and regulated by the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture. The Indonesian Republic also nationalized many of its colonial economic infrastructures, institutions and businesses and inherited the agricultural system of its predecessor, the Dutch East Indies. In the 1960s until the 1980s, the republic made every effort to develop a post-war agricultural sector and led to the sector's significant expansion. During the Suharto era, the government launched the transmigration program that relocated landless farmers from the overpopulated Java to the less populated Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Papua, thus expanded agricultural farms in the outer islands of the territory. The most significant indicator of growth is the expansion of palm oil plantations, which became the new form of transmigration program. Currently, Indonesia is the world's largest producer of palm oil and the leading producer of coffee, rubber and cocoa. However, Indonesia still has vast tracts of idle lands which can potentially be developed into farmlands. These cover 40 million hectares of degraded forest areas that have turned into grasslands after being abandoned by logging concessionaires. Agricultural commodities are known for its economic resilience and are among the first to recover from the impacts of global financial meltdown. With a large number of its population still working in the agriculture segment, Indonesia has great potentials of attracting foreign investments. Production Indonesia produced in 2018: 115.2 million tons of palm oil (largest producer in the world); 83.0 million tons of rice (3rd largest producer in the world, behind China and India); 30.2 million tons of maize (6th largest producer in the world); 21.7 million tons of sugar cane (12th largest producer in the world); 18.5 million tons of coconut (largest producer in the world); 16.1 million tons of cassava (6th largest producer in the world); 7.2 million tons of banana (5th largest producer in the world); 3.6 million tons of natural rubber (2nd largest producer in the world, just behind Thailand); 3.0 million tons of mango (including mangosteen and guava) (4th largest producer in the world, only behind India, China and Thailand); 2.5 million tons of chili pepper (4th largest producer in the world, behind China, Mexico and Turkey); 2.5 million tons of orange (8th largest producer in the world); 1.8 million tons of pineapple (5th largest producer in the world, only behind Costa Rica, Philippines, Brazil and Thailand); 1.8