Economic Phenomenon of Bird?s-Eye Chili Pepper (Capsicum annum) as Strategic Commodity in Indonesia

摘要

Indonesian people is the biggest consumer of spice, especially, bird?s-eye chili pepper. Therefore,bird?s-eye chili turned out as one of the strategic commodity of Indonesia. As the second biggest chili andbird?s-eye chili producer after China, Indonesian economic inflation is significantly influenced by bird?s-eyechili commodity. Bird?s-eye chili market price highly fluctuates from 500-100.000 IDR/kg. Its contribution tocountry inflation was 0.35% from 3.02% in 2016. Bird?s-eye chili has high potential as anexport commodity with3.41 kg/year per capita production and 1.26 kg/year per capita consumption. The efforts to solve bird?s-eyechiliprice fluctuations are to increase the supply by improving bird?s-eye chili production by optimizingbird?s-eye chili cultivation in all seasons. The regulation about bird?s-eye chili market price is highly requiredto help increasing economy. It is also required to improve crop land for bird?s-eye chili, not only for massiveproduction but also for home production. Bird?s-eye chili can be imported to fulfill market needs either. Thus,for balancing the economic rate of bird?s-eye chili, it is required to to build the reliable and sustainablepartnership between farmers, government, distributors and other parties. This improvement is expected toincrease the production and distribution process to all area which can increase the bird?s-eye chili economicalvalue.