ANALYSIS OF THE PRIORITY SECTORS FOR DEVELOPING SUMBAWA REGENCY’S ECONOMY
This research has double objectives first, to find out the main sectors of Sumbawa regency’s economy based on the interconnection between all sectors, sectors that lead into economic growth, sectors that increase the households’ incomes, sectors that offer job opportunities and second, to find out the priority sectors that should be developed by the regency authorities based on four criteria such as interconnection between sectors, outputs, incomes and job opportunities. Inpout-Outpout analysis (I-O analysis) is used for achieving the first objective that is finding out the main sectors, whereas Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used to achieve the second objective that is finding out the priority sectors. The research findings showed that the main sector based on interconnection between all sectors of Sumbawa regency is agricultures, based on economic growth is industry, based on household’s incomes is bank and services, and based on job opportunities is agriculture. The ranking of the priority sectors that should be developed by the regency is as follows. The agricultural sector is ranked at the first position, followed by transport and communication, and the third sector is the industry.