Mens-apparel is a potential export product from Indonesia textile industry. There is a potential increase in this product to European Union (EU). The presence of an exporting country competitor i.e., Vietnam, becomes a challenge for Indonesia to maintain its market position. The aims of this study are...

This paper investigates the effects of island province policy based on Law No. 23 Year 2014 on Regional Autonomy particularly in article No. 27. It is stated that the island province has additional jurisdiction to manage maritime cadastral zone up to 12 miles from the coastline. To measure its influence,...

Fiscal decentralization is an opportunity as well as a challenge for local government to improve the welfare of society through better economic manifestation. Regional economic performance is still a proud note during the implementation of fiscal decentralization. During 2011-2014, economic growth slowed...

International trade for intermediate goods has increased along with the development of the Global Production Network. Contemporary debates are on opportunity to benefit from economic globalization by linking production into global production network. Recent specific studies identify the determinants...

This study is aimed to investigate the effects of grand-parenting on mother's work participation. The data used came from SUPAS 2015 and were analyzed using a multinomial logistic regression. The unit of analyses is women aged 15-54 years who are in union, live with their husbands or spouses and have...

Literatures on Islamic economics and islamic banking reveal that profit and loss sharing become the most important financing in the financial system, but islamic banking practice is highly dependent on mark-up financing with murabaha financing. Islamic banks avoid financing for the results especially...

The long-term strategy of Indonesia's energy resources mix policy for renewable energy supply is targeted to achieve 23 % in 2025. This is due to the increase of population growth and the growing demands of electricity consumption which is estimated to be around 2,500 kwh /capita in 2025. Unfortunately,...

This research is aimed to analyze the effects of the Patent Right Protection (PRP) System in 19 developing countries on the FDI inflow of innovative countries as the home countries (United States, Japan and Germany) in the period where the enforcement of TRIPS Agreement has been put into effect for developing...

In this paper, the pricing behavior of Indonesian Industrial Product Exporters was studied by estimating the degree of Exchange Rate Pass Through (ERPT) of Industrial Export Product Price (at the 4-digit level of Harmonized System classification) towards two Indonesian major trading partners in facing...

East Java is one of the strategic areas in strengthening the maritime economy in Indonesia. This study aims to (1) observe the roles of the maritime sector on the economic development in East Java, Indonesia; especially in the period of 2010-2015, and (2) to analyze the government's efforts in regulating...

The purpose of this research is to observe the effects of the export tax tariff imposition on Indonesian cocoa beans against the export of processed cocoa products from Indonesia and Malaysia in the long-term. Research variables used are the export volume of processed cocoa products in Indonesia and...

Researches in developed countries, especially in western countries, explained the dynamics of women labor supply during life cycle indicated by exit and re-entry in the workforce. The participation rate of female labor force to return to employment is lower when women are in the early years of childbirth...

The success of family planning program is one of the factors contributing to the decline of fertility rate in Indonesia. Although the prevalence of contraception in Indonesia continues to increase, its growth from year to year continues to decline. Internet is a potential ICT media that can be used to...

This research aims to study the direct and indirect effects of social capital forming sub-dimensions on fertility seen from number of children ever born (CEB) through the practice of family planning by applying path analysis with generalized structural equation modeling (GSEM) method. The formation of...

This research aims to show empirical evidence on the association of earning management and financial performance on the Islamic social responsibility of Islamic banks in Indonesia. Firstly, This research examines the indications of the practice of earning management in Islamic banks which is discouraged...

The emerging middle class in Indonesia at the moment have some potentials to be the largest consumers in housing sector which is middle class housing. The phenomenon happens in East Surabaya, even further after the opening access of Middle East Ring Road (MERR). Before buying a house, households make...

This research has two main objectives, which are: (1) to test the appropriateness of existing measurements in identifying class status and (2) to identify Indonesian middle class using a new approach that combines economic and noneconomic measures. The results show that the size of middle class that...

This research is aimed to analyze the effects of trade creation and trade diversion which occured on the establishment of such cooperation for the export of Indonesian food & beverage industry products with trading partners either with its members or non-members cooperation. This research was conducted...

A mosque is a sacred place in Islam that has a central role for the community. It is argued that the mosque can potentially provide necessary supports to enhance the Islamic economic practices. Therefore, this study explores to what extent mosques in Banjarmasin, Indonesia, play their roles in enhancing...

This paper extends the key findings of Kruger and Dunning (1999) showing that people who are unskilled in a given domain tend to be unaware of their lack of skills; to government circle that is supposed to be filled by professionals. This paper compares individual government officials' self-assessment...

This research analyzes the responses of firms to the oligopoly motorcycle industry after Permendag No.21/M-DAG /PER/10/2005 (Permendag No.21 / 2005 in 2005) on structure, conduct, and performance. Price cost margin ratio represents as performance; advertising and R&D expenditure ratio as conduct; and...

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) are important sectors in the economy, especially for developing countries. One of the biggest obstacles towards developing the sector is related to financing. Bank Indonesia has launched the regulation called Bank Indonesia's Policy/Peraturan Bank Indonesia...

Most of the countries in the world, including Indonesia, have agreed to take action of keeping global warming below 2§ Celsius in this century, as ratified in the Paris Agreement. Indonesia is committed to reduce their greenhouse gasses (GHG) emissions by 29% in 2030 without any international support....

Electricity is a primary need in everyday life which can also boost regional economic growth. Tulang Bawang regency, located in Lampung Province, is one of the region in Indonesia in which its economy is heavily depended on electricity. Electricity is utilized to support operational activities of their...

The high economic growth in Indonesia has not been followed by economic equality. The economic inequality is usually in line with poverty. In developing countries, economic inequality and poverty are not only the economic problems but also social problems. Globalization, the lack of access to public...

Number of children and the perfect time to raise children is one of paramount decisions that a household encounters. This rationale appeared since parents recently realized that the number of children they have, the birth order and/or a certain birth-interval between children does matter in influencing...

Zakat as the third pillar in Islam plays an important role in reducing poverty. Zakat is obliged in order to distribute wealth from the rich to the poor. As a result, prosperity will be generated for every citizen in a country. Many types of zakat are introduced in Islam e.g, zakat fitrah and zakat maal...

Sharing economy is an emerging economic platform believed to bring a major change due to its potential to resolve market inefficiency issues. The concept is presumably related to the Islamic microeconomic concepts, particularly huquq (multi interest) and maslahah (greatest benefit). Therefore, the study...

Although sharing economy is believed to lead to various impacts, few studies attempted to analyse the welfare impact of sharing-based services particularly in the context of emerging economies. This study, therefore, aims to investigate the impacts of sharing-based transportation services in Indonesia...

Common Value Theory points out the situation in financial instrument auction where investors tend to bid a lower price than the actual value and it results in an underpricing of financial instrument. The underpricing, further, may hamper the market as it leads to revenue loss for the company. As the...

The evaluation of government programs in order to reduce poverty and reach equal distribution of income is considered to be running quite slowly. This is indicated by the percentage of poor people that only decreased less than 1% a year since 2010; even the percentage of poor people increased in September...

Inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is generally believed to have a positive effect on the host country's economy. However, several studies have documented that FDI by multinational companies (MNCs) may also relate to rising wage inequality issue. Assuming that MNCs are playing an important role in...

This study aims to analyze the influence of chronic conditions and chronic diseases on elderly mobility function in Indonesia using the panel data of IFLS 3, IFLS 4, and IFLS 5. The sample is a balanced panel of elderly aged 60 and above in IFLS 5, who have completed retrospective information and can...

The development of global economic challenges has forced ASEAN countries to further deepen its economic integration within the ASEAN Economic Cooperation (AEC) and to incorporate several ASEAN Plus agreements into Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). Under this circumstance, the ASEAN...

This study investigates Indonesia's trade potential with the TPP economies. Covering 23 years (1992-2014) unbalanced panel data, this paper utilizes a gravity model where the trade potential is calculated from the estimated equation using the ratio of predicted and actual trade (P/A), and the speed of...

Among the advantages of international trade is export premia, in which the exporters have the advantages of productivity compared to non-exporter. Export premia can be analyzed through two hypotheses: self-selection hypothesis and learning-by-exporting hypothesis. The first hypothesis states that high...

The openness in Free Trade era changes the policy of international trade. Along with the tariff reduction, the use of Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) increases and is considered as a trade barrier. Assuming that the implementation of TBT harmonization policy has made ASEAN market more integrated, this...

This research investigated how social capital took parts in the process of disaster recovery in Indonesia using two outcome proxies i.e. the days that the victims spent in the temporary housing and the housing reconstruction that households built. The study is referred to previous studies capturing the...

This study examined the impacts of RASKIN Program in Indonesia for the intakes of total calories and three macronutrients of poor households. The impacts are classified into two: poor households who consume rice up to 15 kilograms in a month and more than 15 kilograms a month. Due to the indication of...

Using the household production function approach, mother's employment during the golden age period may entail a negative time effect and a positive income effect on the child's quality, of which the net effect is ambiguous and thus may become a source of dilemma for the family. Empirical studies on this...

Underpricing, which is considered as the implicit cost of going public, is not the only cost faced by issuers. Another cost of going public is gross spread or underwriting discounts (i.e., explicit cost). This paper examines the gross spread in the Indonesian IPO market over the period of 2007 to 2016....

The study of residential change in later life has become important issues in aging problems during recent years in Indonesia. Many studies indicate that Elders tend to stay than move; hence this is an interesting issue to identify why they move at later life, and what factors determining their movements....