Universitatea de Ştiinţe Agricole şi Medicină Veterinară Iaşi - 112 - THE ROLE OF FEEDLOT BUSINESS IN BEEF SUPPLY CHAINS IN WEST JAVA INDONESIA Rochadi Tawaf 1 , Rachmat Setiadi 2 , Cecep Firmansyah 3 1 Animal Husbandry Faculty Padjadjaran University, Indonesia 2 Indonesia Livestock Development Studies, Indonesia 3 Animal Husbandry Faculty Padjadjaran University, Indonesia e-mail: rochadi_tawaf@yahoo.com Abstract The gap of beef supply-demand in West Java, is shown by the contribution of local beef cattle at 17.50% of the total beef cattle slaughtered reached 285,545 heads in 2009. The rest was filled by local cattle from outside West Java, the import of live cattle from Australia and imported beef boxes as much as 35,780 tones (Government of Livestock Services of West Java, 2010). The purposes of this study were: (1) Provide an overview of the role of feedlot business in beef supply chain in West Java (2) To analyze the contribution of local beef cattle, imported live cattle, and beef boxes to meet the beef demand in West Java. The research method is a survey on the beef cattle Feedlot business in West Java. Respondents were the business of feedlot cattle; the terminal cattle check point and stakeholders. Respondents were determined by purposive sampling. The data was crosscheck by focus group discussion, and were analyzed with trend linear, import capacity and supply chain management analysis. The results of this study were: the feedlot company in West Java has a role and contribute to supplying demand for beef that is not able to be met by local cattle production. The Feedlot has a function of business investment in feedlot cattle business, employment, and empowerment of small holder farmers through a business partnership. To meet the consumption of beef in West Java province, its contribution comes from beef boxes imports amounted to 28.28% and beef production of fattening cattle imported 20.22%, local beef from West Java 7.98% and 15.16% comes from outside West Java and beef production is not recorded reached 28.36%. Key words: Feedlot, Contributions and beef supply chain INTRODUCTION The gap of beef supply-demand in West Java, is shown by the contribution of local beef cattle at 17.50% of the total beef cattle slaughtered reached 285,545 heads in 2009. The rest was filled by local cattle from outside West Java, the import of live cattle from Australia and imported beef boxes as much as 35,780 tones (Government of Livestock Services of West Java, 2010). According these data, the position of West Java as a national center for beef consumption (as the consumer), which still requires the arrangement of the beef marketing map, function and role of institutions in the beef supply chain systems in West Java. Among the institutional activities that need to be studied existence and has a high leverage on demand supply cattle in West Java are: (a) The business of fattening cattle (Feedlot), (b) The management of slaughterhouses, and (c) The business of distribution and marketing beef imports (beef box). In accordance with the conditions of the geo-strategic development of fattening beef cattle, in the last ten years there have been changes in the business, which was originally developed in Lampung province is now likely to move to West Java. The occurrence of these changes, mainly due to various socio-economic factors of business is more profitable to develop Feedlot in West Java as the consumer area. Supported by a conducive business climate, cattle fattening business has grown following the increase in beef demand in West Java. However, in recent years there have been changes to the importation policy of cattle and frozen beef that will affect the existence and sustainability of Feedlot business. Therefore we need studies on the