“Downstreaming” Policy Supporting the Competitiveness of Indonesian Cocoa in the Global Market

Indonesia is one of the cocoa producing countries, where most it exported to foreign countries and rest marketed domestically. export performance in world market certainly opens up many opportunities. It necessary optimize potency competitiveness its if would make exports as driving national economy. The objectives this paper are (1) analyze Indonesian global compared competitors (2) position develop 10 main trading partners. data analysis methods used Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA), Trade Specialization Index (TSI) Export Product Dynamics (EDP). result shows that comparative beans processed lower than other countries. However, still has for products several such United States, China, India, Canada, Mexico Estonia. Some efforts improve may be through replanting estates rejuvenation improvement fermentation quality beans. In addition, enhance base general, also development downstream line processing industries.