Track: Statistical Process Control

Abstract

Years 2007-2008 was recorded as the world rice crisis (FAO, 2008). This was marked by the price of rice on the world market which experienced a drastic increase of 2,852 times in the range of October 2007 to May 2008 (FAO, 2010). Many countries in Asia and Africa were affected by the 2008 rice crisis, including Indonesia. The purpose of this research is to obtain a population consisting of countries that have similarities with Indonesia based on 3 characteristics, namely the atmosphere of democracy, rice consumption and restlessness. Using a multidimensional scaling method, a number of countries have similarities with Indonesia based on these 3 variables. The context of this study is the study of national level crisis indicators. Therefore the results of the research are inputs in the process of validty testing of the indicator in detecting the existence of a rice crisis.