Indonesia Potential to become the world's leading producer

Indonesia has a huge potential to become the world's leading producer of natural rubber. In addition to climate and environment that meets the requirements for growth and development, Indonesia also has a relatively large workforce. Large areas and that many workers do not provide optimal results when not supported by the willingness and ability of the application of technology.

Rubber as an industrial raw material requires a good quality assurance systems, typically based on the determination of the quality of end product testing. This system has many weaknesses of which are not yet able to guarantee contamination-free and consistent.

Tap the potential and solve problems in rubber cultivation in Indonesia as well as a peek of the rising trend of the world natural rubber consumption in the future and the symptoms improved rubber prices, the opportunities and challenges of Indonesia to increase its natural rubber production.

Facing competition between producing countries, exports of rubber products should be improved quality tailored to consumer demand. Global market competition is not limited to products produced, but related aspects of the process, human resources and the environment.

Indonesia rubber prospects in the future is bright where there are vast rubber plantations, was the availability of land for new planting as well as the tendency of continuous increase in demand and rubber prices in world markets. To take advantage of market opportunities available possibilities efforts among others: increased production of the land by intercropping technology, quality improvement with a better treatment system and new product development in order to open up wider market opportunities.