Export Trend of Indonesian Cassava to The Republic of Korea and Malaysia

Indonesia is the third largest cassava exporter in
the world. In the last 20 years, the Indonesian cassava exports
was fluctuated and tended to decline, mainly to the Republic of
Korea and Malaysia. The research purposes is to analyze trend
exports of Indonesian cassava to The Republic of Korea and
Malaysia, also the factors influence them. This research used
secondary time series data during 20 years (1997-2016). The
data analyses are trend and multiple linear regression. The
research result shows that the trend of Indonesian cassava
exports to the Republic of Korea is getting decreased with the
equation Y = -3262 X + 62741. The result of regression analysis
shows that the Indonesian cassava export to the Republic of
Korea is influenced by inflation. Moreover, the trend of
Indonesian cassava export to Malaysia is also getting decreased
that is shown by the equation Y = -49,916 X + 1037.7. The
decrease export to Malaysia is influenced by domestic price and
inflation rate. So far, Indonesian people assume that cassava is
an inferior good. Therefore the government have to change this
assumption.