In the fields of East Java and beyond, Indonesia is attempting something rare: a nation redirecting its military not toward war, but toward harvest. President Prabowo Subianto has set a course for energy self-sufficiency through bioethanol, deploying the Army to rice paddies, the Air Force to sugarcane estates, and the Navy to soybean plots — each branch assigned a commodity, each commodity assigned a target. The ambition is real, the timeline compressed, and the question now is whether command and discipline can substitute for the decades of agricultural investment that were never made.