Abstract:
Riau Province represent one of the province which partake to give
contribution in international trade activity either from regional scale and also
global. Not merely migas sector becoming exporting pledge, but also non migas
sector especially plantation. Palm oil. Rubber and coconut specified by Riau's
government as pre-eminent commodity of plantation. This research of this study
was to know the competitiveness growth of the export for each pre-eminent
commodity which from the competitiveness will do stuff to improve contribution
to area's earning. This research was executed in Pekanbaru from November 2008
up to May 2009, using value and volume export riau provinsi during 3 period tiiat
was from 2004-2007. Data was analysed to use Revealed Comperative Advantage
( RCA) with two especial indicator that is Export Performance Ratio ( EPR) And
Net Export/Total Trade Ratio (NE/TT). Research result of RCA show the
competitiveness index of palm oil which more than one (> 1) while rubber and
coconut smaller than one (< 1). NE/TT of each pre-eminent commodity show the
high level of competitiveness m Riau Province.
