Pustaka Ilmiah Universitas Padjadjaran

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Joint Effort Between University And Industry: Case Of The Padjadjaran University And Carrefour Indonesia In Agrifood Markets Restructuring

Rapid growth of supermarket was triggered by removal of FDI restriction in 1998, complemented by growth of urban population, and investment in property. There are supermarket chains growing “off Java” and in provinces outside Jakarta and small towns on Java. Thus, small supermarkets and convenience stores are starting to spread from the upper level customers, to the general customers. Carrefour built the first store in 1998 in Jakarta area. In a decade, Carrefour has become 33 stores, 25 stores in Java Island and 8 stores spread to large cities outside Java. However, the local production and human resources capacity has not been growing as fast as the retail industry needed. The industry has difficulties procuring agricultural products with consistent quality and quantity and spent a lot on human resources to support the store development. The rapid development of modern agrifood market and its restructuring process has been the subject of attention of researchers from Padjadjaran University. The Center of Agricultural Policy and Agribusiness Studies (CAPAS) has been actively conducting research and case study on the issue of food market restructuring since 2004. The center carried out a major supermarket survey for the World Bank in 2006, and involved in the Regoverning Market Project since 2006 to 2008. The Padjadjaran University, established in 1957, has 40 thousand student bodies, with about 10 thousand alumni graduated each year. The University has 15 colleges, among them, school of economics and 4 agricultural colleges (agriculture, fisheries, animal husbandry, and agriculture technology) with strong research facilities. From several meetings and occasions in the field, team from Carrefour and CAPAS, felt that there is some thing need to be done faster to improve the local supply capacity in the process of food market restructuring in Indonesia, or else the local farmers will lose a huge opportunity to be a part of the agri food system restructuring world wide.