Provinces in the eastern part of Indonesia still have the high percentage of residents living
below the poverty line. However, some provinces are the producers of food commodities.
The One Village One Product (OVOP) movement has been proven to be able to reduce
the poverty level and can be implemented in East Indonesia, especially by developing the
community-based food industry. The objective of the research is to develop a decisionmaking
model to determine the best suitable community-based food industry to be developed
optimally in East Indonesia using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). We identify five criteria
for the model from the literature and interviews with experts, namely resources, demand,
supporting industries, strategy, and competitiveness, and supports from government and
other parties. We apply the model to the case of East Sumba regency of the East Nusa
Tenggara (NTT) province, to select from alternatives, namely cassava, banana, corn and
peanut-based food industries. The results show that banana-based industry is chosen as the
best-suitable community-based food industry, mainly due to the uniqueness of the bananabased
product and high production of banana in the area.