Pustaka Ilmiah Universitas Padjadjaran

Abstrak

Horticultural Producers And Supermarket Development In Indonesia

The value of fresh fruits and vegetables (FFV) output doubled in Indonesia over 1994-2004, to become a 10 billion dollar industry. While FFV expenditure was 50 percent of Indonesian rice expenditure in 1994, it had risen to 75 percent of rice outlays by 2004 – and in urban areas, was at 100 percent that is, urban Indonesians, nearly half the population, spend the same on rice and FFV. Nearly all of the FFV market is domestic: while imports of FFV nearly tripled over that decade, but by today are still very minor, accounting for about 3 percent of FFV consumption in Indonesia (the same as the developing country average). This study focuses on the main vector of globalization change on it, via the rapid rise of supermarkets , in particular in the past five years. Supermarkets occupied a tiny niche in the food market through the 1980s. They were still confined to an urban upper income tiny niche by the mid 1990s, but after 1998 (spurred by liberalization of foreign direct investment in retail, a driver for the “takeoff” of supermarkets in many developing countries in the 1990s, complemented by income growth and urbanization and their concomitant changes) has grown very quickly to now occupy roughly 30 percent of overall food retail. Traditional retail loses about 2 percent of its share each year. Informed observers believe within a decade modern retail will dominate the majority of the food market in Indonesia. Key features of these changes are as follows: (a) As in other countries, supermarkets in Indonesia have not penetrated FFV retail as quickly as they did processed and semi-processed foods, so that industry estimates of the share of FFV retail stand at about 10-15 percent share for supermarkets. This is still minor, but up from nearly zero a decade ago, and likely to continue to grow along with the overall retail transformation. Selling produce only began in earnest in the past five years among modern retailers.