Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Agricultural Product Exports

A Comparative Analysis

Abstract

The agricultural sector has a significant role in Indonesian economy which should be given serious attention by its government, especially those are related to the management and utilization of strategic results in particular food provision. It is hoped that the agriculture sector can provide more benefits and be consumed by the entire population of Indonesia as well as to transform the national economic structure from the agriculture sector to the industry sector process. The data used is time series data during the 2013-2017 period obtained from DEPTAN, BPS, FAO, Bank Indonesia, and the world Bank. The analytical methods used are Trend analysis as well as influence analysis with the analytical models of Ordinary Least Square (OLS), and Auto Correlation Models. The results showed that Indonesia's trade in cooperation and integration of the Indonesia – Malaysia – Thailand Economic triangle (IMT-GT) trend was improving each and every time, and altogether there was an influence Revenue of the importer countries, the population of importers and exchange rate of the volume of exports of Indonesian agricultural products in given period