The Roles of Indonesian Creative Industries: The Economic Perspective

The purpose of this study is to analyze the roles of creative industries in the Indonesian national economy. This study employs Input-Output (IO) analysis as an analysis instrument. More specifically, this study applies the parts of IO analysis, namely simple output multiplier, simple household income multiplier, index of the power of dispersion, and index of the sensitivity of dispersion as analysis apparatuses. The analysis period of this study is from 1990 through 2005. The results show that, by using simple output multiplier, the analyzed creative industries did not include in the top five Indonesian industrial sectors on the period of analysis. On the other hand, from the standpoint of the simple household income multiplier, several analyzed creative industries included in the top five Indonesian industrial sectors from 1990 through 2005, namely general government, education services, and other community services. By using both indices, one can argue that all quadrants were occupied by at least one industry on the analysis period. For example, sectors 115 and 132 occupied quadrant I in 1995 and 1990, respectively.