Authors: Prof. Bayu Taruna Widjaja Putra (ISPA, Country Representative of Indonesia) Dr. Manuela Zude-Sasse (ISPA, Country Representative of Germany)   "Indonesia has extraordinary natural wealth potential, but on the other hand, we also face major challenges in the form of reduced agricultural land and climate change which have the potential to reduce the productivity of the agro-industrial sector. This requires innovative and efficient solutions to ensure food security and agricultural sustainability in the future. One answer to this target is the application of precision agriculture based on advanced information and communication technology (ICT) to gain and transmit plant data to the farmer. Plant data can form the basis for field adjusted management in plantations, especially under varying environmental conditions that we face with global warming. The insitu plant data can support decision making based on the actual requests in the field. By means of adjusted agricultural management we want to follow the common goal of optimizing the use of natural resources, increase efficiency, and reduce food waste. "In this way, we can not only increase productivity but also maintain the sustainability of the agricultural sector in the future." said Prof. Bayu Taruna Widjaja Putra, Professor in the field of precision agriculture from the Department of Agricultural Engineering, University of Jember (UNEJ), who is also the Country Representative from Indonesia in the International Association of Precision Agriculture (ISPAG). Currently, precision agriculture in Indonesia is still in the research and development stage, with its implementation being more dominant in large companies. This is due to the high cost of the sophisticated equipment required which makes this technology difficult for small farmers to access. Apart from that, limited technical capabilities among small farmers are also a major obstacle in the adoption of precision ...more