The purpose of this study was to find out the obstacles faced by the Maluku
Provincial Government in realizing food security through local wisdom during the covid -19
pandemic and to find out the efforts of the Maluku Provincial Government in overcoming
obstacles and realizing food security through sago as a local food in the future. covid-19
pandemic.
The method of research used in this legal writing uses normative law, namely research
focusing on legal norms where the data in normative legal research consists of primary legal
materials and secondary legal materials so that this research focuses on the Maluku
Provincial Government's Efforts in Achieving Food Security in the covid-19 Pandemic
Period. Through Sago Local Wisdom.
Sago as Maluku local wisdom is known to be increasingly neglected and not a
concern due to changes in people's eating patterns and consumption, making the Maluku
Provincial Food Security Agency experience obstacles to realizing food security through sago
during the covid - 19 pandemic, including the community's dependence on rice, the value of
the selling price of sago is high, and there is a conversion of sago forest land. The Maluku
Provincial Food Security Service is known to have a main program, namely food
diversification, one of which is sago empowerment as an effort to realize food security based
on local wisdom. The food diversification program implemented by the Maluku Provincial
Resilience Service includes 3 (three) things, namely community food reserves, food
diversification and food assistance.