“…Consequently, during the observation period, the Indonesian government took numerous steps to restabilize the IS variables to finance its development programs. Prior studies by Yamori (1995), Tsoukis and Alyousha (2001), Tehranchian and Behravesh (2011), Jangili (2011), Mensah (2012), Jošić and Jošić (2012), Kumar, Webber, and Fargher (2012), Hundie (2014), Rahman and Hossain (2015), Al-Afeef and Al-Qudah (2015), Itoe and Atangana (2015), Abusomwan and Ezebuihe (2017), Aka (2017), Yadav, Goyari and Mishra (2018), Alrasheedy and Alaidarous (2018) empirically confirm the IS model by arguing that investment increases because of increased saving. However, several studies fail to uphold the IS model to argue that these two variables' positive correlation indicates that investment increases saving, not vice versa (Onafowara, Owoye, & Huart, 2011;Ngouhouo & Mouchili, 2014).…”