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Abstract—This research aims to determine the strategy for vegetables saps and extract; dairy products and edible animal
digital marketing of Indonesian agricultural products. The products; edible fruit; tress and flower [1].
research method is SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses,
Opportunities, and Threats) analysis by using secondary data The nature of perishable agricultural products and their
from the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS), the ministry reports large volume requires excellent and timely transportation in
and various research results to establish the Internal and marketing. Product damage due to shipping weakness will
External Factor Analysis Summary (IFAS) and (EFAS) on injuries consumers. Digital marketing must be able to
aspects of agricultural products, digital infrastructure marketing anticipate the distribution of agricultural products.
and human resources. The result shows a) Strengths: product
growth, product variety, product exports, product affordable There are great opportunities and challenges in developing
price and agro-industrial raw material; b) Weaknesses: long digital marketing of agricultural products due to external
marketing chain, small number of millennial farmers, baby conditions that continue to change through the development of
boomers and veterans as majority farmers, low e-commerce the industrial era 4.0. This opportunity should be taken for
penetration, bulky and perishable products, not yet good of agricultural product marketing, however, the digital marketing
logistics services and low farmers wages; c) Opportunities: e- only can run through the internet using cell phones and
commerce road map, millennial demography bonus, many cell computers. Unfortunately, this device is only familiar to the
phone users, sufficient number of internet users, growth income millennial, and meanwhile internet user still low. Most of
per capita, many culinary business, high e-commerce transaction Indonesian farmer are generation X and baby boomers. There
and the increase in demand for raw materials of agro-industrial; are only 16.04% millennial workers in the Indonesian
d) Threats: low average development index of information and agricultural sector. In 2017, the percentage of computer user is
technology, little agricultural product start-ups, small valuation 19.11%, while the internet user is 32.24% and cell phone user
of agricultural product start-ups, needs of foreign funding for e- is 59.59% [2]. The development of Indonesian digital
commerce and start up development, very little unicorn start- marketing is being supported by the e-commerce road map that
ups, weak internet infrastructure and increasing report number has been published by the Indonesia government since 2017.
of e-commerce issues. According to IFAS and EFAS, the strategy The e-commerce road map has an important role in the change
is the Weaknesses-Opportunities strategy.
of agricultural products digital marketing.
Keywords: agricultural products, startups, digital marketing, The fundamental basis for the development of Digital
millennial Marketing in the business environment is the Internet. This is
the technology that permits the use of electronic marketing
I. INTRODUCTION techniques and has allowed the creation of the World Wide
Web, as we know it today. It is the technology that has allowed
The Indonesian agricultural product marketing is running
the evolution and adaptation of traditional marketing
through a long marketing chain most of the time due to some
techniques for the new digital environment [3]. There is a huge
marketing agent looking for benefits which causing in the
need of digital marketing infrastructure. Digital marketing
decrease of farmer income. The industrial era 4.0 gives big
infrastructure should include at least: the belt and road portal,
chance of increases of farmer income through the development
companies-participants’ web sites, online stores, social media
of digital marketing that shortened marketing chain for
accounts and social media marketing (SMM) activities, search
agricultural product.
engine optimization (SEO) activities, media and context
The strength of Indonesian agricultural products is the advertisement, email marketing, Integrated customer
number and variety of food crops, plantations, livestock, relationship management (CRM) and e-CRM systems [4].
fisheries and forestry for domestic and export needs. Many
Internet has become a most effective means for promoting
Indonesian products are included in the rising star category in
and enhancing purchasing via the promotion of products and
the ASEAN market. There are nine agricultural products
the provision of any possible information existing, before
included in the rising star category in Thailand, namely fishery;
selling. Also it contributes in facilitating the customers when
cereals; sugars; meat, fish, and food preparation nest;
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The unfavourable condition is that the average wage of the ASEAN market [1]. This shows that the market is still
grey collar and blue collar workers in the agricultural sector is potential for Indonesia.
lower than the manufacturing and service sectors as shown in
Table III. This will reduce millennial appeal to work in the Weaknesses in the development of digital marketing of
agricultural sector so that it can hamper digital marketing of agricultural products as internal factors, especially weak
resources such as the low role of millennial farmers while older
agricultural product.
farmers are more dominant [17], this is related to the low
wages of agricultural workers [18]. The bulky and perishable
TABLE III. AVERAGE OF NET I NCOME PER MONTH BY MAIN INDUSTRY nature of agricultural products requires good logistical handling
(THOUSAND RUPIAHS) 2019 [16] [22].
Main Industry Main Occupation
White- Grey- Blue- Average
The weight, rate, and total score of each internal factor
collar collar Collar element and Indonesian agricultural product digital marketing
Agriculture - 1,188.40 1,068.30 1,128.35 weaknesses are being showed in IFAS at Table IV. The
Manufacture 2,123.10 1,454.20 1,794.80 1,790.70 analysis result shows that the difference between the total score
Services 1,508.70 1,084.10 1,364.70 1,319,17 of strengths and weaknesses is -0.18.
Indonesia's digital marketing infrastructure is also marked TABLE IV. INTERNAL FACTOR ANALYSIS SUMMARY (IFAS)
by Index of Indonesian technology and information
development (IP-TIK). In 2016 is 4.34 which is a bigger Descriptions Weight Rating Total
number than the 2015 (IP-TIK) of 3.88. at 2017, the (IP-TIK) score
Strengths
grows to 4.99. the (IP-TIK) at province level is growing from
Product growth 0.09 4 0.36
2016 to 2017. The province with the highest (IP-TIK) at 2017 Product variety 0.10 4 0.40
is DKI Jakarta, with the index of 7.61while the province with Product exports 0.10 3 0.30
the lowest (IP-TIK) is Papua with index of 2.95 [17]. Product affordable price 0.08 3 0.24
Agro-industrial raw material 0.10 2 0.20
Other secondary data is Creative economic activities that Total 0.47 1.50
can encourage digital marketing of agricultural products, Weaknesses
among other things is the high percentage of culinary business Long marketing chain 0.08 3 0.24
activities that require raw materials of food agricultural Small number of millennial 0.09 2 0.18
products. This will be a great digital marketing opportunity. farmer
Number of creative economy companies in 2016 are interior Baby boomers and veterans as 0.10 3 0.30
majority farmers
design 798 (0,01), craft 1,194,509 (14,56%), culinary
Low e-commerce penetration 0.08 3 0.24
5,550,960 (67,66%), fashion 1,230,988 (15,01%). Total Bulky and perishable products 0.07 4 0.28
Creative Economy Companies 8,203,826 [18]. Not yet good of logistics services 0.06 4 0.24
The results of previous studies on digital marketing of Low farmers wages 0.05 4 0.20
Total 0.53 1.68
agricultural products in Indonesia among other things is study Grand Total 1.00 3.18
on Limakilo. Limakilo is one of the e-commerce companies in
Indonesia which offers shallot as main commodity. The
Opportunities for the development of digital marketing of
Company markets its products by being a direct mediator
agricultural products are quite large as shown in Table V. The
between farmers and consumers [6]. The most used social opportunities are based on secondary data that can be collected.
media types are Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and
Improving the existing communication infrastructure in the E-
blackberry message. The biggest advantage of real time
commerce road map will encourage consumers to have a close
communication with the customers is more intensive, effective,
relationship with marketers.
and efficient supplier [19]. Another study shows the use of the
internet in marketing has not run optimally [20]. The number of great millennial as a demographic bonus is a
very important opportunity for the development of digital
Only few who actively use social media as their promotion
marketing of agricultural products. This is seen from the results
tools and they have not separated their online shop account
of research on positive millennial attitudes towards online
with their personal account, several others use it occasionally, advertising [23]. This is supported by other research that some
and the rest participants have never used social media
of opportunities of digital marketing are: easy consumer reach
marketing for being lack of technological skill. All participants and direct advertising [10].
show great interest to use social media marketing continuously
[21]. Another important opportunity there are many of cell phone
users and sufficient number of internet users that describe Easy
III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Consumer Reach [2]; Large number of culinary business [18];
High e-commerce transaction High e-commerce transactions
The strength of Indonesian agricultural products lies in the that can be seen from the increase in the value of Indonesia's e-
aspect of the number and variety of food crops, plantations, commerce retail business from 1.94 billion USD in 2014 to
livestock, fisheries and forestry for domestic and export needs. 3.22 billion USD in 2015 [24], and increasing the need of
The results of the export competitiveness study show that many agroindustry raw materials, which can be seen from the high
Indonesian products are included in the rising star category in
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production increase of the food and beverage industry by between opportunities and threats 1,06, the Indonesian
12.7% (yoy) [25]. agricultural product digital marketing is on the conservative
strategy, which is Weaknesses-Opportunities (WO)
Weight, rate, and total score of each external factor element combination strategy. The WO strategy purposes to fix the
is being showed in EFAS at Table V. The result of the analysis internal weaknesses of agricultural product digital marketing
shows that the difference between the total score of
through taking advantages of the external opportunities that can
Opportunities and Threats is 1.06. increase the performance of Indonesian agricultural product
digital marketing.
TABLE V. EXTERNAL FACTOR ANALYSIS SUMMARY (EFAS)
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marketing; and 11) Providing great logistic service for agriculture and partnership with culinary and agro-industrial
agricultural products in order to fulfil the culinary and companies.
agroindustry business.
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