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Abstract

This articles aims to illustrated the freezing frying process of salak fruit. However, this commodity can boost the people empowerment. Salak fruit is one of the products that is not durable and relatively low priced especially when the harvest comes. Most of the time, farmers just sell fruit products in form of raw products without any treatment. Farmers only become the price takers where they do not have power in terms of giving price on their product. This matter makes the farmers usually tricked by wholesalers especially when the harvest result is overflowing. Therefore, effort and innovation in terms of processing fruit in order to extend the durability and increase its economic value is needed. The purpose of this study is on how to increase the value of salak fruit in order to have high economic value. The study includes 60 salak fruit farmers which are taken as the samples. Descriptive analysis is used to analyze the obtained data from the study.The research result shows that most respondents have the relative low level of empowerment. The empowerment strategy that involves industry as the farmers’ partner is carried out to improve the empowerment of the farmers of salak fruits. Thus the big harvest can be accommodated by the industry to be processed with the Frying Freezing that can increase the selling value of salak fruits and may survive in the long term.This method extends the durability of salak fruit. Besides, farmers’ yields can be collected in order to be processed without being worried that the fruits will be rotten or cannot be sold