Location Quotient Analysis to Facing Competition in The Pandemic Era Of Covid-19 (Case Study: East Java Province)

Abstrak

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the order of
people's lives. Apart from the health sector, the economic sector is also
affected so that a balanced and well-targeted policy is needed to overcome
this impact. Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB) which were
implemented to reduce the rate of transmission of COVID-19 causes
economic activity, both production, consumption and distribution to be
hampered, causing an economic contraction. The national economy
contracted by 5.32 percent (y-o-y) and the economy of East Java contracted
5.90 percent (y-o-y) in the second quarter of 2020. Even so, there are several
economic sectors that still have good performance and have contributed
greatly to East Java's Gross Regional Domestic Product. Using of Location
Quotient (LQ) analysis in this study aims to identify basic sectors and
formulate the composition and shift of the basic sectors by using GRDP as
an indicator of regional growth.