Analisis Perkembangan Produksi, Konsumsi dan Impor Gula di Indonesia

Abstrak

Sugar is an importance and strategic commodity for Indonesian people, because It
is not only perceived for consumers as end users, but It is also as row material for
certain food industry in order to increase production and value-added. Demand for
sugar increased in line with increases in population, income per capita, and the
development of food processing and beverage industries. This study aims to:
analyze the development of the harvested area, production and productivity of
sugarcane, the development of the national sugar consumption and imports, and to
find alternative suggestions enhancement of national sugar production. The data
were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. Study results showed that sugar
production in the country is still not able to meet consumption needs, thus
increasing sugar imports. Sugar import is not only done to suppress the price of
sugar in the off season but also to meet the needs of the national sugar. There are
several problems associated with the national sugar production, including:
sugarcane productivity is low, the yield of sugar cane to sugar is low, and
technical efficiency of sugar mills are also low, associated with processing
machines are old.

Keywords : sugar, production, consumption, and imports of sugar.