Toko Tani Indonesia: National Program for Shortening Rice Supply Chain

Abstract

One of The Indonesian government effort to achieve the community food security, is through Toko Tani Indonesia (TTI) or the Indonesian Farmers Shop which is shorten the supply chain, to achieve stable supply and price of basic food. To get maximum performance, indicators of achievement have been designed by the Food Security Agency Ministry of Agriculture. To know the efficiency of the supply chain, effects the program to supply and price stability, access of people to the program as well as strategy for better performance of TTI, research on the implementation of the program were conducted during 2018 in Banten, West and Central Java Provinces as well as the Capital City of Jakarta with total samples of 47 TTI. The information were collected from secondary and primary data, than analyzed qualitatively. This paper presents the performance of TTI in: (1) The efficiency in Supply Chain ; (2) Stability of the supply and Price; (3) Providing easy access (4) Strategy for better TTI’s performance. The results show that: (1)The TTI program had definitely success in shortening the supply chain. (2) The contribution of TTI rice had not influence the stabilization of supply and market price yet and (3) consumers had no easy access yet to have TTI rice. (4) Strategy to improve TTI’s performance includes improve the internal management of actors in TTI namely, support the funding compensation in order LUPM can continue to exist, obligate LUPM to supply the rice to TTI periodically, design the criteria of the consumer and Developed more TTI in wider areas. Keywords— TTI, supply chain, rice and actors