PERANAN NEGARA PERANTARA EKSPOR BAGI INDONESIA

Some researchers found that indirect export could contribute to increase trade. Likewise, Indonesian policy maker believes that changes of indirect export to direct export will contribute to increase Indonesian export. The purpose of this study is to identify the importance of indirect export for Indonesia especially to identify Indonesian indirect export countries and products, and also to find out the reason of exporters in doing indirect export.This study used indirect export identified process method of Indonesian trade data with trading partners from 2009 to 2013 from UN-Comtrade.The result shows that Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam as intermediary country for Indonesia besides the conventional intermediary countries (Singapore, Hong Kong, Netherlands, and Germany) .Indirect export process is optional for exporters. Indirect export countries have a positive role to facilitate exports for exporters with some limitations. The Government need to push the indirect export if it is profitable for business. On the other hand, If indirect export is an obstacle, it can be reduced by increasing the effectiveness of the role of the Attache and ITPC to give import market information.