Mengembangkan daya saing pabrik gula di indonesia era masyarakat ekonomi asean
The 1930s was the heyday of the Indonesian sugar industry that is capable of exporting to many countries and has become the country an exporter of sugar to two after Cuba, but the situation is reversed since 1967 in which Indonesia would import sugar from Brazil, India, and Thailand in order to meet the needs raw material consumption and food and beverage industry. The results showed that the cost of sugar production is very uneconomical because of inefficiency that stretches from the cultivation to processing in the factory so difficult to obtain profit margins. Target and beyond sugar self-sufficiency can not be achieved because highly regulated, there is no synergy and tends to conflicts of interests among ministries or agencies, and internal conflicts often occur between the sugar mill and the disharmony between sugarcane farmers by the sugar mill officials.