Indonesian Shipbuilding Industry in the perspective of Collaborative Manufacturing Network (CMN)

Abstract

The Indonesian shipbuilding industry must get involved in a collaboration network in order to be survived in the global competitiveness. The competitiveness level of Indonesian shipbuilding industry is low with only about 1.6 percent of International market share. Most of the proportion is contributed by PT PAL Indonesia with its maximum 50.000 DWT of shipbuilding capacities. The reason can be identified as the Indonesian domestic shipyards are still working as a single company respectively. This fact is contradicted with the tendency of international shipbuilding industry in the current global competitiveness to do collaboration among them to increase their production capacities. Successful example of the shipyard collaboration in order to get the most of the shipbuilding international market is collaboration among shipyards in South Korea and China. Both of these countries have integrated their shipyards and hence have increased significantly their shipbuilding production capacities. Currently, they have been recognized as a shipbuilder country. This paper discuss the condition of Indonesian shipbuilding industry and the potency to get involved in a collaborative manufacturing network in order to increase its global competitiveness.