The potential development of Porang in North Lombok, Indonesia

Porang has a huge potential to be developed in North Lombok, Indonesia, provided an abundance of land availability and suitability, and this is coupled with a large market porang agribusiness, starting from the subsystem of upstream through to downstream. For better business performance, partnership amongst several parties needs to be developed. This paper aims to identify the model of partnership in porang agribusiness, together with the rights and obligations of each party involved, and finally find the ways to improve the current partnerships in one way or another. This study is carried out in four villages within four districts in North Lombok. Interviews were conducted to collect data from porang farmers and their counterparts in North Lombok. Data were analyzed descriptively to answer the research objectives. The study found that partnership occurred in mutually beneficial for parties, covering advantages and disadvantages in each party, to move together into win-win solutions, in the form of plasma core partnership. The partnership needs to encourage for longer periods and expanded to other regions for its positive impact in helping improve people life and the economics of the regions.