Faktor-Faktor yang Memengaruhi Volume Impor Komoditas Jeruk di Indonesia
YOSEP ANDREW TAO SILITONGA. Factors Affecting the Import Volume of Fresh Oranges in Indonesian. Supervised by IDQAN FAHMI. Indonesia has many varietes of export product that if specially classified, it consists of agricultural commodities, mining commodities, and manufacturing industries. These varieties require Indonesia to develop products from each classification. One of them is the products or commodities that derived from the agricultural sector. This research aims to analyze factors that may affect the volume of citrus imports in Indonesia and studies about how the dynamics and conditions of citrus impor commodity in Indonesia. The methods that used in research are descriptive and panel data methods from 2002-2012 that involve six countries (Malaysia, China, Thailand, Pakistan, Australia, dan Hongkong). Data from BPS show, that during 2002 to 2012, Indonesia continued to perform its trading activity and during that time Indonesia did Citrus import to meet domestics needs. The research depicted that in 2012, for citrus comodity it self, Indonesia’s trade balance trend is negative. We also study other factors that affect impor value, such as : domestic citrus production, price of domestic citrus, price of import citrus, currency exchange rate and dummy crisis. The factor that significantly affect the most is the price of citrus abroad.
Pengaruh Konsumsi, Produksi, Kurs Dollar AS dan PDB Pertanian Terhadap Impor Bawang Putih Indonesia
As an agricultural country, Indonesia has great potentials in the agricultural sector. But nowadays,the problem occurred in the agricultural sector is quite disturbing indonesian's economic. The increasing of horticultural products import, showed as if horticultural products could not compete. Based on data from BPS, horticultural commoditiy imported highest is garlic. This research intended to determine the influence of consumption, production, U.S. dollar exchange rate and the GDP of agriculture to the import of garlic in  Indonesia. Besides that, this research also aimed to determine the variables that most affected the import of garlic, which used linear regression analysis. The results showed that consumption, production, U.S. dollar exchange rate and the GDP of agricilture effected simutaniosly and significant to the import of garlic. Then partially, consumption and the GDP of agriculture has significant and positive effect to the import of garlic. Production and the U.S. dollar exchange rate had no significant effect and the variables that most affected to the import of garlic in indonesia is GPD of agriculture.
Diagnosing Constraints in Knowledge of SMEs
SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) have problems with both formulating and acquiring new knowledge and skills. A method is proposed to identify the knowledge and skills an SME requires to exploit its market opportunities. The method provides a quick but effective strategic analysis to diagnose gaps that are essential for a company in its attempt to maintain or improve its competitiveness. Within this method, gaps in knowledge and skills relate to a company’s market approach, product designs, production technology, and management methods. For the identified gaps, necessary actions are planned. This enables a company to acquire new knowledge and skills, and to bring its market approach, product designs, production technology, and management methods in line with both the company’s own ambitions and market demands. In applying the method, it turned out that the companies involved were made conscious of the emerging strategic pattern regarding their attempts to achieve competitive advantage.