Foreign Direct Investment in Indonesia

Fifty Years of Discourse

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8416385
AutoresJ Thomas Lindblad (Leiden University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen51
Número2
Páginas217-237
Fecha de publicación2015-05-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0007-4918 • E-ISSN: 1472-7234
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00074918.2015.1061913
OpenAlexW1908011591
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18
Referencias citadas61

The topic of foreign direct investment (FDI) has been prominent in assessments of economic development in Indonesia during the past 50 years. In this article I review Indonesia's FDI record in a historical perspective; the current urge to control FDI inflows and the need to augment domestic savings and facilitate technology transfers are not at all new in Indonesia. I draw in particular on the discourse on FDI in this journal, the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, giving special attention to contributions by this journal to the international literature on FDI and its impact. The article demonstrates that the relation between FDI and economic growth has been less straightforward in Indonesia than elsewhere in Southeast Asia. Although FDI has grown in a restrictive investment climate, on occasion it has failed to do so despite more liberal conditions. This may be attributed to the sustained role of natural resources in determining Indonesia's attractiveness as a host country of FDI

Attractiveness · Development economics · Economics · Foreign direct investment · Indonesian · International economics · International trade · Macroeconomics · Natural resource · Political science · Asian Studies and History · Global trade and economics · International Business and FDI