AGRIBISNIS PERKEBUNAN MEMASUKI AWAL ABAD 21: BEBERAPA AGENDA PENTING

Abstract

Estate-crop agribusiness has played and is still expected to play important roles in
Indonesian economy. Besides its consistent contribution on economic growth and foreign
exchange earning, it provides employment for more than 13 million people. In the beginning
of 21st century, the estate-crop agribusiness will face various new important agenda and
strategic business environment changes related to this subsector, namely, production cost,
commodity prices, market competition, trade liberalization, production policies, trade policies,
regional autonomy, environmental issues, and plantation plundering. Some of them will
depress the development of the subsector in the beginning of 21st century, while the others
will provide better opportunities for the development of the subsector or their net impacts are
still vague. To optimize the roles of the estate-crop subsector agribusiness, various important
agenda and strategic business environment changes related to the subsector should be
managed in a such way that the negative impacts of the changes can be minimized while the
positive and vague impacts can be converted to be a growth engine of the subsector in
entering the beginning of 21th century.