| Summary: | The program of TRI (Smallholder’s Sugarcane Intensification) enacted in accordance with Presidential decree No. 9/1975 has been a governmental policy in sufficing national sugar stock. The policy was enacted in response to the unwillingness of farmers to rent out their land for sugar plantation to sugar factories, while at the same time the demand of sugar increased, and the goverment had to keep the price of sugar affordable. Principally the ‘TRY program has been a program intended to stabilize sugar stock and price as well as to increase farmers income and welfare besides to encourage farmers to cultivate their own land optimally. In the short run, national sugar production increased, because of the availability of land needed for sugarcane plantation. Moreover cultivation by the government to encourage participation of people in the program was carried out intensively. Thus, at the initial stage of implementation, the ‘TRI’ program being a public policy has reached the intended target, particularly in the stabilization of sugar stock and price. The success of the ‘TRI’ program varies in each region. From the viewpoint of productivity, an area might achieve high productivity while another low. This thesis researched Kediri Regency which achieves high productivity and Bantu1 Regency with low productivity. By viewing productivity variation between the two regencies, the writer expects to identify the causal factors of the variation, so that policy recommendation to improve the performance of program implementation can be formulated. Based on the research, the writer concluded that land availability, agricultural cost, seed, labour, harvest and post harvest, communication among organization in charge of the implementation of the program with the farmers, dispotition of people, farmers technical perception of sugarcane plantation, and farmer’s willingness to apply cultivation technique, were influential to the performance of program implementation. Communication among organization in charge of the implementation of the program and perception of program functionaries were not influential because conditionally, the two factors were similar in the two regencies. To improve the performance of the implementation of the ‘TRI’ program, the writer recommended several policy alternatives for the government: to pay more concern on farmer’s aspiration; increase farmer’s income; simplify mechanism of credit appoval to avoid delay of land cultivation; introduce sugarcane cultivation technology; apply sugarcane purchase system extensively; and give opportunity to farmers to observe the process of sample analysis of sugarcane.
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