... and imports) and Indonesian firms’ productivity in the manufacturing sector. We assess this by scrutinizing total factor productivity (TFP), absorptive capacity and firms’ export–import propensity and intensity. The common assumption is that a firm’s higher export propensity or likeliness to enter global...

... The results showed that total factor productivity (TFP) has increased slightly for the whole industry, which is mainly due to the technical change rather than the efficiency change. Further decomposition of the efficiency change into its pure technical and scale efficiency components suggest that the pure...