ABSTRACT
Indonesia is no different from other developing countries of the world when it comes to facing problems related to meeting food demands of the people. Unfortunately, in South Sulawesi, strategies to overcome food demand, especially demand for rice, resulted in not only increased rice production but also increased smuggling activities by the emergence of separatist movements of Darul Islam/Tentara Islam Indonesia (DI/TII) Kahar Muzakkar. The aim of this study is to reconstruct the efforts made by the government in the Guided Democracy period in South Sulawesi to overcome the problems. It is crucial to explain the efforts made by the current government as well as the challenges faced by during 1959–1965. Both qualitative and quantitative data are presented in this study. Methods used in this study were heuristic, critics, interpretation, and historiography.
