Bengkulu is one of the provinces in Sumatra with an area of 21.168 km². It is on the southwest coast of the island of Sumatra, and borders the Provinces of West Sumatra, Jambi, South Sumatra and Lampung. The capital and largest city is Bengkulu city. This area, largely functioned as agricultural land. This makes Bengkulu, also known as the plantation areas which has vast and fertile agricultural land. Some agricultural products derived from Bengkulu are Coffee, Cocoa, Oil Palm and Rubber. Unfortunately, much of this agricultural production was not matched with adequate infrastructure. One of the important facility is the road that usedas a means of outcomes plantation transport . This condition is very concerning because more than half of the roads in Bengkulu have been damaged.
Baseon the table we can see that the increase in palm oil production in Bengkulu Province matched by a reduction in the percentage of poor people. In the lastfive years, an increase in palm oil production in Bengkulu province are quitesignificant. When in 2006 the production as much as 373.815 tons, in 2010 the production of palm oil increased by almost 100 percent to reach 615.624 tons (Source: Statistics of Indonesia Plantation 2009-2011). Whereas, the percentage of poverty in the Province of Bengkulu the steadilydeclining from year to year. When in 2006, 23% of the population of Bengkulu is in the poor category, by 2010 this number was reduced to 18.30%. This occurs because more people are interested in farming palm oil to get the potential income which is very promising. Previously, farmers in Bengkulu focus on coffee, rubber and cocoa. But in a last decade they switched become oil palm farmers.
