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The Political Economy of the Indonesian Integrated Pest Management Program during the 1989–1999 Period

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Indonesia is considered to have been successful in implementing the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program during 1989–1999. The critical activity of this IPM program was to conduct the participatory training of farmers in IPM practices. Participants were asked to observe and find or discover, by themselves, pests and their natural enemies and then to discuss their findings with one another and freely express their own opinions. Then they were encouraged to derive practical conclusions and implement them. In this training there was no clear-cut distinction between trainers and trainees. Trainers only acted as facilitators. Most of these activities were conducted in the field, where half of the field was planted using techniques that farmers had normally practiced and the other half following the IPM practices being analyzed. Graduates were expected to change their beliefs and practices from exclusive use of pesticides more towards management of the ecosystem, growing healthy crops, and preserving beneficial natural enemies. This chapter aims to understand why this program worked from a political economy perspective. It concludes that among the requisite conditions for this program to work are strong national political support, thorough local research, appropriate mechanisms to implement the policy, and direct benefit to local people. The chapter also observes that when these requisite conditions were not there, the program collapsed.

Indonesia Project, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. A different version of this paper is published in the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 33, 365–380.

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    See also studies by Kishi et al. (1995) and Kishi (2002).

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    Among the most important scientists from these institutions are Ida Njoman Oka of the Research and Development Institute–Ministry of Agriculture, Kasumbogo Untung of Gadjah Mada University, and Soemartono Sosromarsono of the Bogor Institute of Agriculture.

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  1. Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, 0200, Canberra, ACT, Australia

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Resosudarmo, B. (2014). The Political Economy of the Indonesian Integrated Pest Management Program during the 1989–1999 Period. In: Peshin, R., Pimentel, D. (eds) Integrated Pest Management. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7802-3_10

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