Dialectics of Dairy Farming Enterprises and Dairy Farmer Community in Pangalengan West Java

Universitas Padjajaran, Jl. Raya Bandung Sumedang KM. 21, Hegarmanah, Jatinangor, Kabupaten Sumedang, Jawa Barat 45363

^* Corresponding author email mali. mauludin@gmail.com

Abstract

Dairy farming business in Pangalengan has been established since Dutch colonial goverment set in and it continues until today. The business encountered such dynamics, in which aligned with political changes took place in Indonesia. Situated in Southern West Java, Pangalengan has been an icon of dairy farming in that it is major occupation of Pangalengan inhabitants. Capital owners were atracted to invest there, make capitalism penetration occured during some periods and developed quite well. Koperasi Peternak Bandung Selatan / Dairy Farmer Cooperative of South Bandung (KPBS) which is famous for its pro-community development then emerged and established along with the massive development of dairy farming in that town which later gave big contribution to development process. One of them is the establishment of a new private dairy farming plant in Pangalengan. Dillematic situation then occured. There were pro and contra against the existence of that private enterprise amongst the Pangalengan citizens. One group thought that the enterprise would generate the development process in Pangalengan, while others considered that it would create a clash with the community dairy farmers who have existed long before the independence of Republic of Indonesia. This paper will discuss dialectics of Private Dairy Farming Enterprise and dairy farmers community in Pangalengan. Both perspectives of private dairy farming enterprise and dairy farmers community will be the study in this paper. Positive and negative aspects are constructed in the arena or dialectics of dairy farming development.