Governance Analysis in Food Security Policies in Batam City, Indonesia

Abstract

Every country and region have considered food security as a crucial issue because it can support national development. As one of the important cities in Indonesia, Batam City also tried to improve food security and reduce food vulnerability in its region. This article then explained that in order to achieve these purposes, Batam City has implemented a governance process within its food security policies. The method used in this article is descriptive-analytic to gain a systematic, factual, and accurate description of the fact of the relationship between the investigated phenomena. This article’s result showed that the governance process can be observed through three stages of food security policy in Batam City, namely (1) the planning stage that starts from diagnosing policy prerequisites until identifying the involvement of other parties; (2) the implementation stage where the Batam Government has coped with various problems by implementing food security programs; and (3) the evaluation stage by creating an instrument for food security monitoring.