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Coal is the main commodity required by various countries as a substitute for petroleum as an energy source. This study aims to look at the competitiveness of Indonesian coal exports and the development of Indonesian coal in eight countries of export destination and want to study the effect of the ratio of the price of coal, the export destination country's GDP, exchange rate, and the value of RCA against Indonesian coal exports. Export destinations in this study are China, India, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines and the study period is 2002-2012.. This study uses RCA index, EPD, and IIT and panel data regression analysis. The results show that in general the development of export coal to eight destination countries has increased. RCA results show Indonesian coal generally has a comparative advantage in the eight countries of export destination. Based on EPD index, almost in all destination countries except Hong Kong, Indonesia coal competitive position is a rising star. Based on the method of IIT, the nature of Indonesia's trade with all destination countries except Hong Kong are weak integration that is no integration. Variables that affect the volume of coal exports is real GDP export destinations, the real exchange rate of export destinations, and RCA. Meanwhile, the Indonesian coal price ratio does not significantly affect the volume of Australian coal exports. |
