ANALISIS KONSUMSI PANGAN RUMAH TANGGA PASCA KRISIS EKONOMI DI PROPINSI JAWA BARAT

Abstract

Food is the most fundamental need for household, directly related to the quality of
human resources. The objective of this paper is to analyze the pattern of household food
consumption in West Java province after economic crisis. Data are from SUSENAS year
1996,1999 and 2002. The results are : 1) Prosperity level of households after economic
crisis is getting better, but it still lower than condition before crisis, 2) When the
economic crisis happened, energy and protein consumptions of household decreased and
the slope of it in West Java province was higher than national level. After economic
crisis, consumption level of both nutrients then increase again, 3) Consumption of rice
decrease after crisis, but consumption of instant noodle increase. The pattern of staple
food consumption also change from rice pattern to rice-noodle pattern based of both
region and income group. The implications of the policy is developing program of food
diversification in the future must be implemented in more accurate way, supported by
deeper research about consumer behavior. Besides, efforts to increase purchasing power
and availability of some commodities such as animal foods, vegetables and fruits must be
done. In accordance with that, people awareness of food, nutrition and health must be
increase too. Political will and political power of governments are the success deciders.