Despite being one of the world's largest coffee exporters, Indonesia's coffee output for the international market has recently been dropping. Smallholder coffee growers and their cooperatives faced production challenges due to a lack of market demand knowledge, financial assistance, cultivation and processing equipment, and business practice expertise, according to a case study investigation of these groups. The research then conducted a quantitative survey of 84 international customers from 29 countries and enhanced it by speaking with ambassadors of the Indonesia Trade Promotion Centre in nine different nations. These global players' insights produce helpful information, such as product details, pricing ranges, and quality standards. The results show that for smallholder farmers and cooperatives to fulfil the demands of the global market, relevant commercial actors must assist them. As a result, this study creates a model of the coffee value chain that demonstrates how market demand data motivates cooperatives and smallholder coffee farmers to increase coffee output in a diverse business environment. Marketing might contribute to smallholder farmers' and cooperatives' economic prosperity and well-being by using varied insights from foreign consumers.
Despite consumers' growing support to preserve the environment, organic products business in emerging country such as Indonesia is still suffered from consumer’s low acceptance toward organic food. It is conceivable that some influencing factors are existed; as such consumers’ attitude cannot be translated into action. Through mixed methodology research, this study proposes an approach to integrate individual factors, which encompasses psychographic and demographic factors, into Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to predict consumer acceptance toward organic food. Then, using Partial Least Square analysis, this study generates an extending TAM that could explain the role of those individual factors toward consumers’ acceptance on organic food.
In recent years, utilization of social network sites (SNS) such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for text, image, and video sharing in Jakarta, Indonesia, is becoming very popular. Many fashionistas - artist, singer, designer, and fashion blogger - take advantage of SNS to share what they are doing, what they are wearing, and even their personal life. Apparently, their glamorous life style has been attracting million of followers. High appreciation toward their posts in SNS is given by clicking ‘likes’ symbol as well as positive comments from the followers. This paper provides an overview of social network activity in Jakarta for promoting fashion brand. A netnographic approach was conducted to observe and analyze SNS’ content, which consists of photos, texts and hashtags, and followers’ comments. Since SNS’ account owner could have dual roles, i.e. as consumer and supplier, we categorize two types of account owner. First, fashionistas who launch personal account and, at the same time, have collaboration with fashion brand or have their own clothing line; and second, apparel companies who promote their product through SNS. We noted that apparel companies utilize SNS to launch new fashion products and to give detail information, which include photos, products size, and how to purchase, which is simply a business as usual. In the other hand, fashionista’s shared their personal style, favorite brand and designer, and fashion tips for the followers, such as mix and match fashion and where to purchase. Personal style is presented by wearing an outfit for a commercial events, e.g. product launching, gala show, etc.; and for daily use, e.g. fashion shopping, hang out with friend, and travelling. Fashionistas usually mention the brand or the designer of clothing, shoes, and bag that they wear in the photo with good recommendation, thus a positive electronic word of mouth (e-WOM) is conveyed to the followers instantaneously. Even though fashionistas’ activity is actually part of marketing practice that promote fashion brand, personal approach through their shared life style is obviously more appealing rather than direct promotion activity by apparel companies. It is proven by number of followers, likes, and comment from fashionistas’ followers which is greater than apparel companies. As the similarity, both apparel companies and fashionistas give knowledge sharing about fashion to the followers, and utilize commenting section to interact with them. In turn, e-WOM is also exchanged through discussion among followers on the commenting section; and the ability of followers to share content with other users. Then, mentioning hashtags – a number sign character (#) followed by a word or phrase related to the topic - is strengthen e-WOM because hashtags is clickable and searchable for SNS users.