INDONESIA, 2ND WORLD COCOA PRODUCER

How to understand the cocoa producing potential in Indonesia - an appa rent << new commer >> ? The approach consists in comparing available s tatistics with field observations, while at the same time taking into account the author's own data on the rules by which a << cocoa boom >> functions in other countries. As with all countries in which there ha s been a << cocoa boom >> production statistics for Indonesia have bee n underestimated and on occasion upwardly revised, a posteriori. With a growing number of family-run plantations playing the dominant role, complemented by a few private or state-run plantations, Indonesia is b ecoming a very big producer of cocoa.