Indonesian Manufacturing Sector Output and Productivity: An Australian Comparative Perspective, 1975-90

W. F. Shepherd, Adam Szirmai and D.S. Prasada Rao ()

Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, 1998, vol. 34, issue 2, 121-142

Abstract: This paper provides industry-of-origin comparative estimates of real output and labour productivity in the Indonesian and Australian manufacturing sectors. It makes binary comparisons for the benchmark year 1987, and extrapolates the 1987 benchmark backward and forward using national time series, to derive comparisons for the years 1975-90. Expressed in 'purchasing power parities' (PPPs), the gross value of output and value added in Indonesian manufacturing in 1987 was 40% and 34% of the respective Australian levels. In 1987 the Indonesian manufacturing price level was 74% of the Australian level, and Indonesian manufacturing labour productivity was 16% of that in Australia. 1975 to 1990 was a period of catch-up. The Indonesian manufacturing price level declined from 105% to 60% of the Australian level, while labour productivity increased from 12% to 17% of the Australian level. The catch-up was greater from the early 1980s onwards.

Date: 1998
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