© 2015 Asian Economic and Social Society. All rights reserved ISSN(P): 2304-1455/ ISSN(E): 2224-4433 Volume 5(12), 248-262 248 DEVELOPMENT OF AGROPOLITAN AREA IN PAPUA (CASE STUDY: AGROPOLITAN AREA IN THE CITY OF JAYAPURA) Yannice Luma Marnala Sitorus, Normalia Ode Yanthy and Anggia Riani Nurmaningtyas Faculty of Civil Engineering and Planning, University of Science and Technology Jayapura, Indonesia Abstract 1 The agropolitan area in the eastern part of Indonesia to be not as developed as the western part of Indonesia. The city of Jayapura is an agropolitan area in the eastern part of Indonesia. This research was aimed at studying development of agropolitan area in the city of Jayapura. A qualitative approach with descriptive method was used to determine the superior potential of agricultural sector, to identify chain of production in agribusiness, and to identify service of infrastructure in each subsystem of agropolitan area. Contribution and rate of growth of agricultural sector towards GDP of the city of Jayapura decreased, Farmer Exchange Rate was under 100, decreased in micro loan of agricultural sector, and area of rice fields decreased, showing the stagnation of agropolitan area in that particular city. The superior products are rice, cash crops, vegetable, fruit, and livestock produce. Infrastructures on all agricultural subsystems are still limited and the most minimum is on subsystem infrastructure of downstream agribusiness. The majority of farmers there sell their produce directly to Youtefa market. Production chain is short thus it does not give much added value on the harvest. The local farmer group has a lack of critical attitude towards the existing development. Keywords: Agropolitan area, production chain, subsystem infrastructure 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Background The development of an agropolitan area actually originated from people centered development concept, in which one of the expectations from the development program is the presence of changes in farmers’ life attitude from the tendency of being subsistent towards a more creative , innovative, and productive one, except in the implementation in Indonesia, it is emphasized more on territorial (area) development which is mainly in the form of physical aspect. The fact that there is a difference in area physical and social characteristics of the people between developed area in the western part of Indonesia and developing area in the eastern part has caused development in agropolitan area in the eastern part of Indonesia to be not as developed as the western part of Indonesia. Similar aim of policy has been applied in the city of Jayapura but it has not been able to increase the development of agropolitan area there. Previous study (Labok, 2013) showed that a number of support facilities of agropolitan area development had been provided at Muara Tami district, in the city of Jayapura, province of Papua, but the agricultural activities taking place in the area was still individual in nature, it had not been Corresponding author’s Name: Kouadio Koffi Patrice Email address: kkpatrice@hotmail.fr Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development http://aessweb.com/journal-detail.php?id=5005 DOI: 10.18488/journal.1005/2015.5.12/1005.12.248.262