Trade and Gender: Indonesia

Canada and Indonesia have strong commercial relations. Indonesia is Canada’s 24th largest merchandise trading partner: two-way merchandise trade totalled $4.2 billion in 2021. Two-way trade has grown steadily over the last decade, by 3.2% annually on average. Indonesia is Canada's largest Southeast Asian export market and its second-largest destination for direct investment abroad.

In 2021, Canada exported $2.2 billion in merchandise to Indonesia and imported $2.0 billion in merchandise.

In Canada, 9,002 jobs were directly or indirectly supported by merchandise exports to Indonesia in 2020, 2,653 of which were occupied by women.

Top 5 industries

In 2020, the top 5 industries employing Canadian women in jobs supported directly and indirectly by merchandise exports to Indonesia were:

• Agriculture and Agri-food: 582 jobs
• Wholesale trade: 413 jobs
• Transportation and warehousing: 248 jobs
• Finance and insurance: 202 jobs
• Professional, scientific and technical services: 195 jobs

In 2020, the number of Canadian businesses exporting merchandise to Indonesia was 730, and the number of Canadian businesses importing merchandise from Indonesia was 1,168.

Ownership of Canadian Businesses Trading with Indonesia, in 2018:

Women-owned and equally owned businesses*

• Export value: 7.1%
• Import value: 17.1%
• Exporters: 19.0%
• Importers: 30.6%

Men-owned businesses

• Export value: 92.9%
• Import value: 82.9%
• Exporters: 81.0%
• Importers: 69.4%

Women-owned and equally owned Canadian businesses trading with Indonesia make up a larger proportion of merchandise importers than of merchandise exporters. They also account for a larger proportion of imports than exports by value.

Notes*:

• The term “equally owned business” is used in reference to one in which men and women each own 50%. The reported percentages are those for which data on ownership by gender are available.

Source: Statistics Canada (Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamics Database (2018), Trade by Exporter Characteristics (2018 and 2020), Trade by Importer Characteristics (2018 and 2020), and Canadian International Merchandise Trade Database (2021).