Factors Affecting Foreign Direct Investment Mineral Mining Sector

Indonesia is a country with plenty of natural resource and recently Indonesia needs investment in the mining sector reached IDR 830 trillion by 2014 in the context of the Master Plan for the Acceleration and Expansion of Indonesia's Economic Development (MP3EI). In order to reach target, the researcher analyzing the effect of export mining sector, exchange rate, interest rate on foreign direct investment mining sector in Indonesia. This research shows that partially exchange rate have significant influence on FDI mining sector in Indonesia, but export mining sector and interest rates not significant on FDI mining sector in Indonesia. Export mining sector has a positive effect while exchange rate and interest rates have a negative effect to FDI mining sector in Indonesia. In this study will look at macro-economic factors as a pull factors of foreign direct investment mining sector that is owned by Indonesia are mining export, exchange rates and interest rates. This work gives some benefits to the researcher. It also can give contribution to Indonesia government, academic community and especially the economist or next researcher.