Analysis of Competitiveness and Factors Affecting Indonesia's Selected Commodity Exports to Developing Eight Countries (D-8)

Authors(3) :-Sridewi Nainggolan, Tanti Novianti, Muhammad Findi Alexandi

Indonesia's exports to major trading partners show a declining trend in recent years. So that market diversification is important so that exports do not fully depend on the main trading partners. Looking at the development of Indonesia's exports to the Developing Eight Countries (D-8), this region can become a potential market to increase exports. This study aimed to analyze the competitiveness of commodities, and the factors that affect Indonesia's commodity exports to (D-8). The analysis period from 2009 to 2018 uses Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA), Intra Industry Trade (IIT), Export Dynamic Product (EPD), and Gravity Model using panel data regression. Based on the results of RCA and EPD analysis, Indonesian commodities are able to compete and occupy a variety of positions, namely the Rising Star, Falling Star, Lost Oportunity, and Retreat positions. The IIT results show that most of Indonesia's trade relations with D-8 member countries are one-way (No Integration). Factors that influence exports are, GDP, real exchange rates, commodity prices, economic distances with different results for each commodity.

Authors and Affiliations

Sridewi Nainggolan
Economic, IPB University, Bogor, West Java, Indonesia
Tanti Novianti
Economic, IPB University, Bogor, West Java, Indonesia
Muhammad Findi Alexandi
Economic, IPB University, Bogor, West Java, Indonesia

Competitiveness, EPD, Gravity Model, IIT, RCA

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 6 | Issue 6 | November-December 2019
Date of Publication : 2019-12-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 119-130
Manuscript Number : IJSRSET196621
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099

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Sridewi Nainggolan, Tanti Novianti, Muhammad Findi Alexandi, " Analysis of Competitiveness and Factors Affecting Indonesia's Selected Commodity Exports to Developing Eight Countries (D-8), International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology(IJSRSET), Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099, Volume 6, Issue 6, pp.119-130, November-December-2019. Available at doi : https://doi.org/10.32628/IJSRSET196621      Citation Detection and Elimination     |     
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