Food Processing and Food Security through Optimizing the Utilization of Local Food Potential at the Sota Border
Hubertus Oja, Yohanis Endes Teturan, D Laiyan, Edoardus E. Maturbongs, Ransta L. Lekatompessy

Universitas Musamus Merauke, Indonesia

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to analyze food processing and food security through optimizing the utilization of local food potential at the Sota border. The approach in this study is qualitative descriptive in the form of observations of empirical conditions that occur combined with the results of other previous research. Data analysis uses data reduction, data presentation, verification, and inference. The results of the study show that the local government policy of Merauke Regency in food management through the utilization of local food at the Sota border has not been carried out optimally to maintain community food security. There is no direction for the economic development policy strategy of the Sota border community because the border aspect is not only related to territorial sovereignty but food and economic sovereignty of border communities. Local food potential borders Sota has a diversity of local food both tubers, bananas, swamp fish, anthills, eucalyptus oil and other forest products which have been managed locally and traditionally whose results are not optimal. For the trade aspect, the government has not established a trade zone so that people can market local food products. To maintain the sustainability of community food security has not been optimally carried out by the local government and local communities at the Sota border through local food cultivation by utilizing sleeping land and swamp forests for local food cultivation and integrated with government policies both nationally and regionally through diversification of local food to anticipate food crises.

Keywords: Food management- Food security- Optimalization- Local food

Topic: Food Security and Food Processing