Indonesia’s Challenges toward Industrial Upgrading
11 August 2017
Yuri Sato
Executive Vice President
Institute of Developing Economies
Japan External Trade Organization
(IDE-JETRO)
Indonesia = Japan 2nd Industrial DialogueJICA mission @ Bappenas
1. Indonesia’s Advantages
2. Challenges Facing Indonesia
- From Deindustrialization
to Reindustrialization
- Weak Productivity
- Weak Financial Intermediation
3. Assessing Economic Reform Policies
4. Conclusion
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1. Indonesia’s Advantages are
Double-edged Swords ….
1. The world 4th largest population
(+) Demand & supply base
(ー) Hotbed of poverty and unemployment
2. Demographic bonus (1970s~2030s)
(+) Locomotive of growth
(ー) One chance, hard to catch up after that
3. Rich natural resource endowment
(+) Resource booms repeat
(ー) Dutch disease risk → Discontinuous indus-
trial development cf. East Asia
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1. Indonesia’s Advantages are
Double-edged Swords ….
Needs right policy intervention for
promoting
- Growth investment
- Industrial upgrading
- Equity
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Authoritarian Developmental Regime (Soeharto Regime)
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Agriculture, Fishery, Forestry
Mining
Manufacturing
Democracy
Service industries
Transition period
Commodity boomOil boom
2. Challenges Facing Indonesia
Rise and Fall of Manufacturing Share
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• Under the authoritarian
developmental regime, the
manufacturing share
constantly increased, even
in the oil booms.
• “Full-set industrialization”
(resource-based +
labor- intensive +
capital-intensive industries)
progressed.
• However, In the 2000s
commodity boom,
Indonesia moved to
deindustrialization.Note: Base year of GDP is 2000 up to 2012, and 2010 after 2013.
Source: BPS Indonesia (Central Agency of Statistics).
Shares in GDP (1970-2016)
2. Challenges Facing Indonesia
Export : Repeated Dependency on Resource
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Export Structure: 1975 - 2010
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Misc.goods
Machinery
Manuf.goods
Chemicals
Vegetable Oil
Mineral Fuel
Crude materials
Food
Soeharto's Developmental Regime
Manufactured goods
Source: UN Comtrade. Manufactured goods = SITC 5 - 8
►After the oil boom, exports shifted from crude oil to manufactured goods (5% in 1982 to 59% in 2000).
►In the 2000s commodity boom, manufactured exports decreased to 41% (2010). Minerals (coal), vegetable oil (CPO), and low-processed resources dominated exports.
The 2000s Commodity Boom was Over...
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Source: Compiled based on data from World Trade Atlas.
($ bil)Major Exports (value) 2000 - 2014
Some Manufactured Exports Picking Up
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Source: Compiled based on data from World Trade Atlas.
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The peak and the end of the 2000s commodity boom
Indonesia’s Top 10 Exports (HS4 digit)
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1993 2011 2014
1 Petroleum oil Coal Coal
2 Plywood Natural gas Palm oil
3 Natural gas Palm oil Natural gas
4 Garment Petroleum oil Petroleum oil
5 Electrical appliance Natural rubber Natural rubber
6 Textile fabric Copper ore Motor cars
7 Rubber products Palm kernel oil Palm kernel oil
8 Petroleum oil products Petroleum oil products Plywood
9 Shrimp Copper Fatty acids/alcohols
10 Other textile products Unwrought tin Petroleum coke
Top 10 (% of total) 63 52 45
Total exports ($bil) 37 203 176
Source: World Trade Atlas and BPS.
Challenge 1: From Deindustrialization to Reindustrialization
Sources of Economic Growth
Labor, Capital, and Productivity (TFP)
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• China’s source of growth shifted from labor to capital, and to productivity.
• Indonesia’s source of growth started from capital, moved to labor. Productivity has made the least contribution. = “The Myth of Asia’s Miracle”
Indonesia shouldfocus on enhancing productivity.
Source: Asia Productivity Organization (2011) APO Productivity Databook, p.63.
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Labor Capital stock TFP Output growth
Indonesia Thailand China
Challenge 2: Weak Productivity
Selected Indicators of Technological Capabilities
in ASEAN and other Asian countries
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2000 2010 2000 2010 2000 2008
Cambodia 1 6 n.a. n.a. 0.05 n.a.
Lao PDR 0 9 n.a. n.a. 0.04 n.a.
Myanmar 4 26 n.a. n.a. 0.11 n.a.
Brunei 193 61 9 n.a. 0.02 n.a.
Philippines 1,027 944 73 68 0.14 0.11
Viet Nam 184 2,036 11 6 0.19 n.a.
Singapore 3,900 3,934 63 50 1.85 2.66
Indonesia 1,860 6,524 16 11 0.07 0.08
Thailand 2,553 6,799 33 24 0.25 0.21
Malaysia 2,355 8,614 60 45 0.47 0.63
Total/ Average 12,077 28,953 49 39.6 0.32 0.77
Korea 15,424 24,778 35 29 2.30 3.36
India 5,682 33,932 6 7 0.77 0.76
Japan 21,329 58,836 29 18 3.04 3.45
China 25,657 297,037 19 28 0.90 1.47
Note: In high-tech exports, the figure of Burnei is at 1998, those of Korea and Viet Nam at 2009 instead of 2010.
In R & D expenditure, figures of Burnei, Lao PDR, Philippines, and Viet Nam are at 2002.
Those of Philippines, Thailand, and India at 2007, Malaysia at 2006, and Indonesia at 2009.
Source: ISO, ISO Survey 2011 , and World Bank, World Development Indicators .
Country
Number of
ISO 9001certification
High-technology exports
(% of manufactured
exports)
R & D expenditure
(% of GDP)
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Indonesia
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Challenge 3: Weak Financial Intermediation
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Indicator of Financial Deepening (M2/GDP)1995~2014
Source: World Development Indicators.
aims at domestic-demand-led investment-led economy
1. Mobilize domestic savings
- Broaden taxation base
- Mobilize financial savings (deposit)
2. Promote investment = Reindustrialization with
higher value added and higher productivity
- Fiscal incentives
- Credit expansion
- R&D promotion
- FDI utilization
3. Reduce business costs (=improve productivity)
- Deregulation, rationalization, simplification
- Improve logistics and infrastructure
3. Assessing the Current Economic Reform
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but still needed
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Conclusion
► Indonesia is amid the phase of critical importance,
an unrepeatable chance of demographic bonus.
► Higher growth accompanied with industrial
upgrading should be pursued. Reindustrialization
with higher value added and higher productivity
would be the key indicator.
► It is crucial to make smart policy intervention in
order to boost domestic-demand-led growth by
mobilizing savings, investing them toward
industrial upgrading, and reducing business costs.
Government efforts of economic reform need to be
more intensified.
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Terima kasih !!