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From 1989 through 1998, BPPC held a right of monopoly over the distribution of cloves from farmers to cigarette producers and exercised the right by purchasing cloves from farmers through KUDs (village cooperatives).

As an illustration, the price of cloves when BPPC was still active was only Rp 2,500-3,000 per kilogram he labor wage was Rp 15,000 per day.

1. CLOVES DISAPPEAR FROM THE MARKET; IMPORT OPPORTUNITIES OPEN?

For the period of January-September 1997, BPPC (the Cloves Marketing and Bufferstock Agency) distributed a total of 86,733 tons of cloves to cigarette manufacturers with the following breakdown: 46,500 tons (54%) to large-scale cigarette manufacturers; 30,156 tons (35%) to medium-large scale ones; 7,035 tons (8%) to medium-scale ones; and 3,042 tons (4%) to small-scale cigarette manufacturers.

PROS AND CONS ABOUT CLOVES TRADING MECHANISM

Since BPPC (the Cloves Bufferstock and Marketing Agency) came into operations in 1990, the room for the operations and growth of small-scale cigarette producers has been increasingly small.

In 1996, according to data from BPPC, the procurement of cloves by KUDs from farmers was only 38,300 tons while demand reached 95,789 tons.

CIGARETTE INDUSTRY STILL GROWS DESPITE PRESSURES AND PROBLEMS

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