ANALYSIS OF INDONESIAN ECONOMY

Based on the article of indonesia-korsel potensi besar in kompas newspaper on Monday, September 30 2013. The article informed us that Indonesia and South Korea have a good relationship of cooperation in the economic field, it is proved based on data from the Ministry of Industry, the average exports of industrial products to Korea Indonesia 2008-2012 period reached 1.7 million U.S. dollars with a growth rate 11.5 percent. On the other hand, imports of industrial products from South Korea to Indonesia reached 2.6 million U.S. dollars with an average growth of about 33 percent. The last time Indonesia recorded a trade surplus with South Korea in 2007, which is about 160 million U.S. dollars. This condition freefall into $ 4.6 billion deficit in 2012. From the above explanation of the article we can analyze that south korea is a significance to the Indonesian economy. Because, with the cooperation between Indonesia and South Korea's investment is expected to strengthen the structure of the industry in Indonesia, such as in the steel industry and the petrochemical sector, which is still dependent on imported raw materials. Besides the importance of South Korea looks from his position as the third largest investor in Indonesia in the first quarter of 2013, with total investment reaching 774.7 million U.S. dollars. For comparison, in 2012 the total value of investments made South Korean businessmen to reach 1.9 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 55 percent compared with the previous year. It can be concluded that the south Korean investment in infrastructure is very influential for the Indonesian industry sector and certainly affect the Indonesian economy.