The competitiveness of indonesian cloves commodity in international market

Clove is one of the plantation commodities that contributes to the Indonesian economy. Indonesia, with a large potential of land area, is expected to be able to increase domestic clove production to provide domestic and international demand, increasingly. The purpose of this study is to analyze the competitiveness of Indonesian clove commodities in the international market. Using the Revealed Comparative Adventage (RCA) indicator, the Trade Specialization Index and the Acceleration Ratio (AR). The results of the analysis show that Indonesian clove commodities have a comparative advantage, and play a role as net clove exporters and are able to compete and reduce the international market share. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.