Seaweed had proven to become a fisheries commodity to provide a significant multiplier economic effect for coastal community in Southeast Maluku District during 2005-2013. However, the declining on the productivity of seaweed has given a direct impact on welfare of farmers and coastal communities in this region during the recent years, due to asymmetric information on seaweed farming associated with prices, latest technology and all pre and post production activities. Thus, forming a dedicated information centre for seaweed farming in the region has become a necessity. As small island regions, in Southeast Maluku district, farmers and all stakeholder have to deal with cliché problems such as insufficient infrastructure, lack of transportation, farmers locations that spread across the islands. This paper focused on the selection of suitable location for the information centre for seaweed farming in Southeast Maluku district, Indonesia. Analytical hierarchy process (AHP), in classical and fuzzy forms, was an approach used on this study for suitability analysis. Moreover, GIS for spatial analysis in addition to AHP was used to compare the best results for the location of information centre for seaweed farmers. The results show that fuzzy AHP could provide more suitability location compared with conventional AHP. Most of suitability locations were located in three sub-districts regions and also most of them were located in Kei Kecil Island and Kei Besar Islands due to the geographical characteristics of the region. The sensitivity analysis was conducted to measure the sensitivity of the results when the weight of each criterion was changed. The outcome of this study was to serve its purpose as an input and comparison study for a recent local government of Southeast Maluku' policy on developing seaweed farming in this region. .

Systematic literature review in supply chain and decision support system, in general, have been rapidly performed during the last decade. However, the studies on the epistemological progress of decision support system related to the supply chain are still lacking. This study intended to provide comprehensive information on the trends, methodologies and the applications on different sectors and platforms used by scientists for building their decision support systems in supply chain. We used different keywords to collect the raw data based on articles published in well-known journals in the world to select the eligible studies which furthermore assembled. The data were processed by using bibliometric tool in VOSviewer and Microsoft Excel. The results of this systematic review give some key learning of the trends on the use of decision support system on smoothing the flow of supply chain and the logistic performance in the last decade and also provide a background for future research related to the fields.

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As archipelagic region, an effort to effectively enhance and accelerate the development of each sub-districts to boost the rapid development of Southeast Maluku district in Indonesia cannot happen as long as the local government fails to identify the real potentials and power in fisheries sector of each sub-districts. Identification of each sub-district fisheries top sub-sector has to be based on the human resources, natural resources, infrastructure, current and potential market, current policy of local and central government. A multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) is one of the powerful tools to provide a better result based on complicated factors involved. This paper proposed an integrated MCDM, to tackle the complicated factors in order to provide the best commodities on each sub-districts. Bottom-up concept was used to have a comprehensive result, by combining Fuzzy logic with Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to measure the factors using fuzzy logic with Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) for determining the top sub-sector in fisheries. For comprehensive assessment of macro factors the study used experts ranging from government, scientists, practitioners to NGOs. On the other hand, for micro factors the survey used field instructor, field officer, fishers and farmers. The results provide a guideline for local and central government to form a better policy regarding the development of each sub-district including farmers, fishers and coastal communities in each subdistrict to focus on commodities that benefited their regions' resources and coastal community's capabilities. By doing so, we hope to contribute on crafting an integrated and collective path on reaching the goal which is the welfare of coastal region. .

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