Prospek Kerjasama Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Dalam Peningkatan Ekspor Produk Pertanian Indonesia

Abstract

In 2019, Indonesia's total exports to RCEP member countries were around 61.65% of Indonesia's total exports to the world, and 44% of them were agricultural products. This study aims to examine the level of interdependence and complementarity of Indonesia with its 14 trading partners in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) on agricultural commodities. The data used is secondary data from time series of trade flows of agricultural commodities between Indonesia and RCEP countries in 2010-2019 which were obtained from Trademap. The data analysis method used is the trade complementarity index and the Intra-industry Trade index. The results of the study show that RCEP member countries are a potential market for Indonesia. This is supported by a high trade complementarity index and in the last five years the tendency to increase and an increase in the index of Indonesia's IIT with trading partners, it's just that when viewed from each RCEP member, the IIT value still tends to fluctuate. The agricultural sector in Malaysia is the RCEP member country with the highest IIT score, while Cambodia has the lowest IIT score. Cereal and flour processed commodities (HS 19) were the commodities with the highest intra-industrial index, while meat and edible meat scraps (HS 02) were the commodities with the lowest value.