THE VIABILITY OF INDUSTRY IN INDUSTRIAL CLUSTER:

STILL HOPES FOR GROWTH

by Sri Indah Nikensari

ABSTRACT

Globalization and competitiveness are realities that must be faced by small and medium industry today. Government in the implementation process of the industrial development of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), should see this reality and be a decisive consideration in any policy to be issued, as well as a paradigm that must be faced by any country in implementing industrialization process. Industry cluster in Indonesia is one of the policies adopted by the government in promoting small and medium industries. Survival and the success of an industrial cluster is dependent in part on whether the industry in the cluster have the power to live.

This study aims to analyze the internal and external factors that affect the viability of industry, in order to get a model study of how to improve the viability of industry in the industrial cluster. These factors are age of maturity, product diversity, macroeconomic stability that affected the business climate, and government regulation. Population of research consists of entrepreneurs in the garment and metal centers in Small and Medium Industry “PIK Pulogadung” , East Jakarta, Indonesia. Regression model was chosen to measure the influence of independent variables affecting the viability of the industry in the cluster.

The results showed that all independent variables significantly affect the viability of industry in the cluster, unless government regulation variable. The study revealed that 61% of variation data viability of industry is explained by independent variables, indicated by R² .

Government regulation was not affected significantly in this study, needs to get more attention. We know that operational of industrial cluster was managed by the local government cluster. In this cluster, government regulation is not significant, due to the lack of facilitation of production / promotion.

Keyword: SMEs, Cluster industry, Industry Viability

KINERJA NON FINANSIAL UMK DEPOK

THE INFLUENCE OF THE PARTNERSHIP

TO NON-FINACIAL BUSINESS PERFORMENCE

ON MICRO AND SMALL ENTERPRISES (MSE)

IN DEPOK – WEST JAVA - INDONESIA

Oleh:  Sri Indah Nikensari

Abstract

Economic people are the largest group of economic actors in the Indonesian economy and proven to be cover peacekeeping national economy in time of economic crisis, and to be dynamist in post-crisis economic growth. One of the strategic efforts in improving the welfare society by strengthening the policy from some of the largest economic life of Indonesian people is through empowerment on Micro-Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME).

However, there are some gap performance between Micro-Small Enterprise (MSE) and  Medium-Large Enterprise (MLE).  One way as a problem solving is through business partnership among them.  According to UU RI  No.9/ 1995 and PP no. 44/ 1997 pasal 14 (1), the business partnership is the cooperation between small business with medium and  large business accompanied by the construction and development efforts using the principles of mutual need, mutually reinforce and mutually beneficial. In this study, the partnership reviewed the aspects of access Distribution / Marketing (X1), access to Human Resource Development (X2), Access to Capital (X3) and access interrelation in Management Business and Organization (X4).

In this research, the patterns of partnerships between MSE and MLE in Depok city - Indonesia based on  franchise agreement, partnership with foster father pattern and partnership based on non-formal agreement.  That relationship was studied knowing how much business partnership will affect the business performance of MSE. It is also seen aspects of sub most influential non-financial performance of MSE. Data will analysis and test using OLS method.

The results show that there are a positive and significant relationship between aspects of partnership business construction and development to non-financial business MSE performance. The most influential partnership aspect is access interrelation in Management Business and Organization (X4).  There results indicate that if access interrelation in Management Business and Organization (X4) increased 100%, non-financial business performance will increase 82.3%. While the influence of other aspects of the construction to non- financial business performance less than 50%. Seen from parsial Pearson correlation, the correlation on aspects of partnership to non-financial performance showed that access interrelation in Management Business and Organization has the strongest and positive correlation.

Therefore is important to increase access interrelation in Management Business and Organization improving the performance of non financial MSE, as has been done in franchise business that has strong in this aspect.

Key words: Partnership, non-financial performance, Micro-Small Business, Medium-Large Business

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