Economic Activity and Pollution:The case of Indonesia 1967-2013

Mohammad Rofiuddin (Faculty of Economic and Business Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta)
Tito Aditya Perdana (Agrocampus Ouest, Rennes)
Nugroho SBM (Faculty of Economic and Business Diponegoro University)

Jurnal Ekonomi Pembangunan: Kajian Masalah Ekonomi dan Pembangunan
Vol 18, No 2 (2017): JEP 2017

Increased economic activity accompanied with environmental pollution. The objective of the study was to analyze the effect of per capita GDP on CO2 emissions and to prove the hypothesis of the Kuznets environment curve. Method for analyzing data by using multiple linear regression with quadratic equation. The results show that GDP per capita has a positive and significant influence on CO2 emissions, as well as the square GDP per capita has a negative and significant influence on CO2 emissions, so the Kuznets Environment Curve's hypothesis can be proven.