Sustainable Development Through the One Village One Product (OVOP) Approach for Local Commodities

Abstract

One Village One Product (OVOP) approach becomes one of society’s movement that is integrated and aims to increase the sociaty’s awarness towards the potential and the richness of their local or region’s commodities. The research aims to identifie local commodities in the West Tobelo Municipality especially the agriculture commodities. The reason of choosing this region for this research due to the fact that it has better quality of commodities compare to other region on the North Halmahera Region. Therefore, the aim of this research is to further identify and then acknowledge which of these local commodities that have the potential to become the “premier or superior commodity”. The methode used in this research is Location Quotient (LQ). The result shows that OVOP program is applicable in the West Tobelo Municipality, and this relates to many of the regions’s potential sectors, thus, Wes Tobelo can be the platform for developing these commodities. The result also suggest, however, the lack of coordination involving the society and the local government on the importance of policy making that supports the development of local commodities, also the efforts to empower the society’s human resources.