Bustanul Arifin
Indonesia has been the second largest natural rubber producer behind Thailand, but ahead of Malaysia since the last decades. In 2005, the rubber production of Indonesian is estimated to reach 2 million tons, or about one million ton lower than the Thai rubber production. The growth of natural rubber production in Indonesia is about 6.3 percent per year, a slightly behind the rate of Malaysia, but higher than that of Thailand. The production estimate is not only because the growing demand of world market, hence the high rubber price in the last three years, but also because of growing attention on high yielding clonal rubber and positive externalities brought about by agroforestry system in natural rubber production.
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