Agrocraft as a Creative Economy Development: Woven Bamboo
Abstract
Developed countries are realized that the economic growth not only depend on the industrial sector. The Goverment of Indonesia launched the creative economy development program on 2009 to develop creative economy which driven by the industrial sector called the creative industries. The creative industries is driven by creativity and innovation. Calok is a village in Jember regency which have the potential creative industry based on woven bamboo and agriculture. It creates a new sector of creative industries named agrocraft industry. The purpose of this research is developing the best business strategy by adopting the local wisdom of Calok using Strength Weaknesses Opportunities Threaths (SWOT) analysis. The Eksternal Factor Evaluation (EFE) and Internal Factor Evaluation (IFE) analysis shown that EFE matrix has a total score of 3.065 while IFE matrix has a total score of 2.302. By this result, the position of Calok community enterprise is in quadrant II. Analysing Qualitative Strategy Planning Method shown the alternative strategy should be applied is product development. The developed business strategy are new product design, spesialization product line, improvement design skills, designing product with less technology need.
Keywords: agrocraft industry, strategy development, SWOT analysis, woven bamboo
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