Diversification of products derived from maize for the sustainable welfare of the people in Gorontalo province, Indonesia

Abstract

Processing industry contribution in each commodity can add value for forward linkages and backward linkages. The economic condition of Gorontalo province is as follow: contribution of regional GDP in education service is 9%, financial and insurance services’ contribution is 8%, and agricultural sector’s contribution is 4%. This shows an economic growth anomaly, where the agricultural sector as a leading sector has yet significantly contributed toward the gross regional domestic product of Gorontalo province. Our gross regional domestic product per capita is only IDR. 9,544,583 with 17.30% of poor population workforce productivity are in the 30th rank. Maize is a commodity potential to be developed into various derivative products with high economic value. This is study expected to contribute to the local government in increasing the competitive advantages and economic motor for the community in the region, as well as contribute to the private sector in developing various derivative products from maize commodity. This study uses quantitative descriptive method which constitute of desk study and secondary data analysis, workshop, and meeting with related stakeholders, development of study design for value chain actors, presentation, and result discussion to formulate the master plan and development model for various maize commodity products.

Energy Consumption and Economic Growth in Indonesia

“…It has been seen that population increase and energy consumption are positively related regardless of the economic conditions because more people tend to consume more energy overall This Journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (Aiyetan and Olomola, 2017). Indonesia, being a developing country, has also diversified its economy from palm and crude oil to tourism which has led to increase in population in turn increasing the energy consumption (Hasan et al, 2019). Though the growth of economy has been observed in the Indonesian context, there still remains a concern whether the energy consumption intends to affect the economic growth in Indonesia or not.…”