Author : Sanim Bunasor

Summary : The study aimed at assessing the present state, role and performance of the Indonesian plywood and lumber industries. the primary source of the data was the "Annual survey of manufacturing establishments, " conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics, Indonesia (BPS), part of the 1981 and 1982 industrial survey data, and those of the plywood (ISIC 33113) and lumber (ISIC 33111) industries which covered 85 and 694 firms, respectively. Descriptive analysis was employed to determine the business characteristics, input used and output produced and productive efficiency and factor intensity of the plywood and lumber industries in Java and outside Java. To quantify relative economic efficiency, the interrelated measures were used. Economic efficiency from the private (financial) point of view was estimated using two indicators : total cost up to FOB, and ratio of total cost up to FOB to border price (F/B-ratio). To quantify relative economic efficiency from the social point of view, the concept of domestic resource cost evaluated in social opportunity cost was used. Measures employed were net social profit (NSP), domestic resource cost (DRC), comparative advantage (CA), and resource cost ratio (RCR).