Starting from 2005, the focus shifted from a price-band policy to setting a floor or procurement price while selling subsidised rice to the poor via the Raskin programme. Evaluating the performance of buffer stocks on price stabilisation in Indonesia in the past decade is complicated by Indonesia's trade policy. Until the early 2000s, Indonesia was one of the world’s largest rice importers. To boost domestic production, it implemented an import ban in 2004, which resulted in a surge of domestic prices.