Indonesia Peasants Alliance (API) is a national level farmer organisation representing member’s organisation from 14 provinces and 37 districts. API in its strategic plan 2009-2013 has described some strategic issues to approach principally at marketing level: Farmers have a weak negotiation position in the market chain; there is no influence on farmers’ productivity and there is a lack of capacities to assess community needs around sales management and postponing sales. These issues are part of the objectives of this project proposal for the coming three years (2011-2013). The project will be executed in five districts of Indonesia (Lumajang District of East Java Province; Boyolali District of Central Java Province, Cianjur District of West Java Province, Batanghari District of Jambi Province, and Banggai District of Central Sulawesi Province) in each district one organisation was elected which produces a specific agricultural product. The products are: banana, organic rice, cassava, cacao and duku. The projects will address the following issues per product: organize the production (intensification of the crops, post harvest processing, internal control, standard control and quality). Establish agricultural business units (cooperatives) in each district (five units in total), training in marketing chain management, training at national level in negotiation and advocacy regarding production value chain and access to the market. Exchange activities amount API members. In the project it is expected to establish a semi-autonomous women’s organisation.

Aliansi Petani Indonesia (API) is a national producer organization. API was founded based on agreement among independent farmer organizations in Java and Sumatra. The foundation is for the interest of farmer movement as a pressure group for a in justice and un fair policy that marginalized life of million farmers in Indonesia. The overall goal of the project is: To contribute in poverty alleviation by improving small producers’ income, employment opportunities and their position in the community by ensuring small producers inclusion in the value chain through partnership with enterprise and strengthening their access to financial institution, technical and knowledge provider and business development services. Besides that there will be focus on development of specific capacity building activities for API to make it possible for the organisation to do effective facilitation and monitoring-evaluation of the project. This will be done in cooperation with the HPSP secretariaat within INA (Indonesia Netherlands Association). Focus during this project will be on eight partnerships that have been identified to be facilitated. They will be replicating and up scaling their business and impact. They have received support from the HPSP in 2008-2009 and are ready to get further assistance and services as elaborated in the HPSP phase 3 in developing their value chain performance. Another 3 to 5 new partnerships will be selected to ensure that the HPSP phase 3 will have an effective program delivery mechanism that promotes partnerships in Indonesia. Of the additional partnerships at least two have to be outside of the island of Java. A partnership has been set up between the HPSP secretariaat and API. The national farmers organisations will be strenghtened so that they will be able to take over the management towards the end of the execution of the programme.