PETA PERSAINGAN PRODUK EKSPOR INDONESIA, MALAYSIA, SINGAPURA DAN THAILAND

Abstract

This paper examines the export product competition of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand which classified into five major groups: primer product, natural research intensive product, unskilled labor intensive product, technology intensive product, and human capital intensive product. The method used is product mapping, which is combination between Revealed Symmetric Comparative Advantage (RSCA) and Trade Balance Index (TBI). The data used is the 3-digit SITC revision 2, obtained by UNCOMTRADE, year 1980-2015. The result shows that Indonesia has comparative advantage in export specialization of primary product, natural research intensive product, and unskilled labor intensive product. Singapore and Malaysia have comparative advantage in technology intensive product, while Thailand has human capital intensive product. This research proves flying geese pattern of the five group of product, that if a country becomes a leader of one product, it will become follower in another product.