Peningkatan Produktivitas Tenaga Kerja Indonesia di ASEAN Sebagai Upaya Peningkatan Daya Saing

Abstract

Productivity is an indicator for a country’s competitiveness. This paper analyzes the comparison competitivenesss of Indonesian workers relative to its competitiveness in several ASEAN countries. At the end of this paper, is expected to provide some policy recommendations that should be carried out by Indonesian Government to encourage an increasing of their labour competitiveness in ASEAN. This paper uses comparative analysis techniques. The secondary data was collected from the APO, ILO, UNDP, BPS.The result is, Brunai has the highest level of labour productivity even though it is decreasing. ASEAN has a trend of increasing the labour productivity during 1970-2016 period. Labour productivity in ASEAN tends to increase by almost 4 times from USD 6,2 thousand per worker in 1970 to USD 23,4 thousand per worker in 2016. During the 1970-2016, the labour productivity growth of ASEAN has continued to decline. During the 1970-2016, the labour productivity per hour in ASEAN increased from 2,8 percent in 1970 to 10,9 percent in 2016. The highest labour productivity growth per hour in ASEAN was achieved by Malaysia in 1990-1995 amounted to 6,5 percent, in contrast, the lowest of labour productivity per hour in ASEAN was achieved by Brunei Darussalam at 0,3 percent.