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Facing the implementation of ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) at the end of 2015 requires strategic measures to make Indonesia ready to compete with other nations in ASEAN. East Java Province has great potentials and contributions in the national agribusiness. Establishing agribusiness in East Java towards increased competitiveness is the right step to welcome AEC 2015. This research attempts to study the appropriate model of agribusiness development strategy for East Java. The selection of strategy model is expected to prepare a strong and competitive economy in East Java. Through three principles of data analysis model of Miles and Huberman with the emphasis on data collection, data display, and verification, this study also used a variety of data collection techniques and verifications such as Focus Group Discussion (FGD), observation, and others. This research was conducted in four regions as the focus of the study area: Probolinggo District, Sidoarjo District, Pasuruan District and the City of Batu. The results provide the following conclusions: (a) the agribusiness development strategy in East Java should be done with the target approach. This means that the introduction to the target is the most important factors to determine the strategy to be implemented; (b) the role of the government is highly important and strategic in developing agribusiness in East Java. These can be implemented through a variety of program models that are tailored to the target.

Strategic Management has significant role for East Java Province governmental organization in order to improve public service quality. In the local autonomy era all the organizations are suited to be able to make appropriate policies to anticipate environment change and to fulfill public demand of qualified service. This research studies focus on factor that affect process of that strategic management. This research proposed three variables, power, leadership and commitment. As "explanatory reseach" this research aimed to explain some problems which formulated as follow: (a) Does power influences to strategic management at East Java Province governmental organization? (b) Does leadership influences to strategic management at East Java Province governmental organization? (c) Does commitment influences to strategic management at East Java Province governmental organization? By differing strategic management into three dimension: formulation, implementation, and evaluation, then analyse that used "Structural Equation Modelling" (SEM) was very suitable because there were two analysis stages (Second Order Confirmatory). Despite, it was wished contribution of the three dimensions of management would be studied. The respondents are 220 persons representing all the kind of East Java Province governmental organization: departement (dinas), committee (badan), and office. According to result of study, it results several conclusions: a) the power and leadership negatively affected strategic management. There were because of bureaucratic-centralistic power and directive leadership, (b) the commitment affected strategic management, specifically on implementation stage, (c) the leader can't maximaized transforming existing power for success of strategic management, (d) the strategic management can't maximize improving public service because of there are the bureaucartic-centralistic power and directive leadership.