ANALISIS DAYA SAING KAKAO INDONESIA

The study of competitiveness of Indonesian cocoa was based on comparative and competitive advantages of cacao production and the study aimed at analyzing the competitiveness of the cacao counted by domestic resource use and the export competitiveness level of Indonesian cocoa product from the point of view of internatioanl trade and the underlying factors of the export competitiveness of Indonesian cocoa product. This research was conducted using basic descriptive and analytic method. Primary data of 2010 was used to meet the first objective and the secondary data of 1991 to 2010 was used to meet the second and third objectives. The primary data was obtained from Donggala district of Central Sulawesi province and drawn using purposive sampling. Based on cluster approach, Balaesang, Damsol and Banawa subdistricts were determined as the locations of the sampling of respondents. The respondents were selected using proportional random sampling considering the cocoa plantation as the main production of the farmers. The results of the study showed that 1) The domestic resource cost analysis showed a high competitiveness of the farmers of cocoa, especially on: (a) financially and economically they have competitive and comparative advantaged, (b) government policy, which was subsidy had beneficial impact on the farmers because they got the subsidy of input and the protection of output that subsequently resulted in the surplus for the