An Integrated Method for Sustainable Performance Assessment: a Case Study on Indonesian Coffee Agro-food Industry

The coffee agro-food industry has great potential for economic development in tropical countries. However, the issue of agro-food sustainability in the coffee industry is a primary focus, so this industry must conduct a sustainable performance assessment (SPA). This research aims to propose a new SPA framework that incorporates the fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (AHP), rating assessment, and traffic light system (TLS) procedures. The fuzzy AHP is used to weight the indicators, and rating assessment is used to evaluate the performance of each indicator. The rating assessment results are used to evaluate the efficiency of the indicators used to calculate the sustainability score. Furthermore, the sustainability score is classified using the TLS to assess sustainability performance. A case study of the agro-food coffee industry in Indonesia is also presented, with six indicators of the economic dimension, eight of the social dimension, and four of the environmental dimension. The results show that economic factors produce good performance (green). In contrast, social factors produce performance that needs to be improved (yellow). Environmental aspects have poor performance (red). The overall sustainability score assessment results show that the agro-food coffee industry in Indonesia scored 85.71%, which is categorized as needing improvement (yellow). This study also makes strategic recommendations to improve the performance of the coffee agro-food industry.