Analysis of Exports and Imports' Effects on Economic Growth in Post-COVID-19 Indonesia

Abstract

The Covid 19 pandemic that occurred in early 2019 threatened all countries, including Indonesia, apart from the health sector which was greatly affected by the pandemic, namely economic growth, and even reached a negative point. Various policies that have been carried out by the government to break the chain of spread of Covid 19, one of which is large-scale social restrictions, all transportation routes between countries are tightened, especially with regard to export and import, cooperation between countries in trade is temporarily closed, until the situation is completely recovered , of course this is a bad signal for the Indonesian state in the economic field, this is because international trade cooperation in terms of export import is one of the contributors to economic growth. As time goes by, the spread of the Covid-19 virus has decreased, economic recovery is increasingly being carried out to return conditions to normal, access to transportation and international trade cooperation for export and import are slowly opening. The purpose of this research was to examine the impact of exports and imports on economic growth following the Covid-19 pandemic, this study used the Eviews 9 analysis tool for error correction or Error Correction Model (ECM), from these calculations the results obtained were a moderate positive relationship between exports and imports with post-Covid-19 economic growth