During the hearing with Commission IV of People's Representative Council on 25 August 2021, Syahrul Yasin Limpo, Minister of Agriculture expressed his concern about the future BRIN plan of liquidation of ministerial research agencies and turning the agency to become part of BRIN.

[2] The Ministry of Agriculture's Balitbangtan is one of ministerial research agencies targeted to be liquidated and fused into BRIN.

[4] In the hearing, Limpo asked the support of the Commission IV to spare Balitbangtan from the liquidation, or if even it is liquidated, only parts of basic research divisions are relinquished to BRIN, while specialized agricultural research are still performed by Balitbangtan.

[4] Earlier on 20 August 2021, Research Professor Communication Forum of Balitbangtan also voiced the same concern.

Tahlim Sudaryanto, Agriculture professor and Head of Research Professor Communication Forum of Balitbangtan submitted the report compiled by the forum to the Ministry of State Apparatus Utilization and Bureaucratic Reform and Ministry of State Secretariat.

In the report, the forum performed analysis and concluded that it is very hard to fuse such a large Balitbangtan to BRIN body smoothly without disturbance.