Revitalization of Plantation Strategic Policies to Promote Regional Competitiveness in South Kalimantan Province
Abstract: This study aims to
identify and analyze the revitalization of strategic policies in the plantation
sector to boost regional competitiveness in the province of South Kalimantan.
The policies are in line with Nawacita Program, directing the
futureagricultural development to achieve food sovereignty; so that Indonesia,
as a nation, can manage and feed its people through food sovereignty. South
Kalimantan is a province in Indonesia that relies on its regional income from
mining and plantation sectors,after the mining (and quarrying) sector
particularly coal mining, decreased. This study applies the action research
approach based on Soft Systems Methodology with hybrid SWOT analysis at the
mapping stage, focusing on the plantation policy revitalizationfor rubber and
palm oil commodities during 2006 to 2015, since these two commodities are the
most dominant commodities in South Kalimantan Province. The results show that
it is necessary to do the re-formulation of strategic policies in the
plantationsector, through the formulation of policy of Regional Regulation on
Regional Budgets and National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMD) in
plantation sector with emphasis on the harmonization of: (1) the Public Policy;
(2) Technical Policy; (3) ResourceAllocation Policy; and (4) Financial Policy
in South Kalimantan Province. These transformations should lead to: (1)
Development of Cultivation and Protection of Regional Plantations; (2) Quality
Development, Product Marketing and Resource Infrastructure,Eco-Friendly and
Sustainable Plantation; and (3) Development of Professional and Responsible
Mutual Performance Services. State of the art of this study is the importance
of integrating the local wisdom and local wealth variables in revitalizing the
strategicpolicies in the plantation sector in order to boost the regional
competitiveness in the province of South Kalimantan that is in line with
Central Government Policy of Nawacita Program to achieve food sovereignty.
Keywords: agricultural policy,
competitiveness, plantation, public policy, soft systems methodology-based
action research
Author: Asmu’i Asmu’i,
Sidderatul Akbar
Journal Code: jpadministrasinegaragg150057
