Developing information system to improve hinterland productivity and rubber multimodal transportation in South Sumatera Indonesia

Abstract

There are many losses in nodes of the rubber supply chain. Rubbers are brought by boat to the Musi river estuary and sent to Mother Vessel near Singapore. If the nodes, where the rubber production is supposed to be collected, are not in function, then the rubber chain will be damaged. Farmers prefer to keep their rubber at home and wait for the middlemen to buy and collect them directly from their home. The productivity of rubber fell sharply as the price went down, and several big factories that have been shut down. This study aims to identify the characteristics of rubber trips, analyze the Nodes of the element of multimodal trips and multimodality per segment of rubber commodity trips, and make scenarios of improvement of the transport system for rubber in South Sumatera by means of information technology system. Transport data is analyzed by Matrices Analysis followed by VISUM program analysis. Interpretation of Land Image to recognize the area of rubber plantation is carried out using Image Landsat 8 and multispectral Analysis. The results will be the information system to improve hinterland productivity and multimodal rubber transportation.