Production of crude palm oil is increasing along with the increase in the number of oil palm plantations. Global market demand also increases exports and competitiveness. This study aims (I) to analyze the development of Indonesia's CPO export volume from 2000 to 2020 (II) to analyze the factors that affect Indonesia's CPO export volume (III) to analyze the competitiveness of Indonesia's CPO with Malaysia. The research was conducted in December 2021-February 2022 using a quantitative descriptive method. The type of data is secondary data in the form of time series for the period 2000-2020. The data used consists of CPO export volume, CPO production volume, international CPO price, sunflower seed oil price, CPO export value and Indonesian export value, CPO export value and Malaysian export value and CPO export value and world export value. The percentage growth of Indonesia's CPO export volume is 7% with a percentage growth of 12% export value. Simultaneously, Indonesia's CPO export volume is influenced by production volume, international CPO prices and sunflower seed oil prices. The volume of CPO production and international CPO prices partially have a significant and real effect, while the price of sunflower seed oil has no partial effect on the volume of CPO exports. Malaysia's RCA index was 2.17 and Indonesia's was 2.12, where Malaysia has a competitive advantage and higher CPO export competitiveness than Indonesia.
Anzani et al. (Wed,) studied this question.