Agropolitan policy implementation regency of merauke

Abstract

The centralistic economic development in the past resulted in a multidimensional crisis experienced by the Indonesian nation, especially the crisis in the economic sphere. To address the issue, the government finally issued a wide range of policies, one of which is the policy on the development of Agropolitan areas. Agropolitan is the result of an approach to develop theories based on the agricultural sector by providing urban services in rural areas or with other terms used by Friedman being a “city in the Fields”. Departing from this, the government of Merauke Regency launched the city of Merauke as the city of Agropolitan because the local district has potential land in agriculture and has several other supporting aspects. This research aims to allow us to create and analyze how Agropolitan policy implementation and what are the supporting and inhibitory factors of the policy implementation in the policy-making especially for Development of Agropolitan areas. This research uses a qualitative method whereby the research method used to examine on the condition of a natural object, where the researcher is the key instrument, the data collection techniques are done in a triangulation (combined) data analysis is inductive, and the result of qualitative research emphasizes more on the meaning of generalization. Adapaun where this research is in KampaungWasur in Merauke Sub-district of Merauke Papua. The result of this research was the implementation of Agropolitan policy in KampungWasur conducted by the government. In this case the department of Food Crops and horticultural has been successfully implemented this can be diliha through the farmer community Wasur has understood its role and function as a farmer, they understand how to plant rice seedlings, planting rice, treating him, harvesting up to market their harvest.