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VP ASKS TEXTILE PRODUCERS TO INCREASE THEIR DOMESTIC MARKET SHARE
Bandung, Nov 17 (ANTARA) - Vice President Jusuf Kalla has asked textile producers in the country to increase their share in the domestic market to 50 percent in the next one or two years.
"We will set a target of increasing the market share of domestic textile industries to 50 percent and try to reach it together," the vice president said in a dialog with members of the Indonesian Textile Industries Association (API) here on Monday.
Earlier in the day, the vice president inspected textile factories of PT Dahlia Textile and PT Metro Garment in the Dayeuhkolot area and took a few minutes of his time to hold a dialog with factory workers.
In the dialog, Kalla said the situation for domestic textile industries up to the end of this year would remain safe but because the purchasing power of buyers in international markets was drooping, the domestic industries should strive to increase their share in the market at home to 50 percent.
"To date there has had been no problem in the domestic textile market but the purchasing power of buyers in international markets, especially in the United States, is showing a downward trend," Kalla said.
On the occasion the vice president asked the textile producers to give him inputs on how to increase their domestic market share.
Meanwhile, API chairman Beni Sutrisno said the domestic market share of national textile industries now was 20 percent.
A textile maker, Edi Susanto, proposed to the vice president issue a regulation requiring textile transaction at home to be made in rupiahs instead of in US dollars.
On his way back from Dayeuhkolot garment factories to Husein Sastranegara airport here, the vice president called Gorontalo Governor Fadel Muhammad to have the latest information about three powerful earthquakes which had hit the province on Monday morning but the governor was not available.
Muhammad was not available when the vice president phoned him but an aide of Muhammad who received the call said the governor was away on a visit to Malang, East Java.
Kalla then called Gorontalo Vice Governor Gusnar Ismali and asked him to take all the necessary measures to help the victims of Monday morning's earthquakes.
Early Monday morning three powerful earthquakes measuring 7.7, 6.0, and 5.7 on the Richter scales consecutively struck the provinces of Gorontalo, North Sulawesi, and Central Sulawesi, causing the local residents to scramble out of their homes in panic.
"We will set a target of increasing the market share of domestic textile industries to 50 percent and try to reach it together," the vice president said in a dialog with members of the Indonesian Textile Industries Association (API) here on Monday.
Earlier in the day, the vice president inspected textile factories of PT Dahlia Textile and PT Metro Garment in the Dayeuhkolot area and took a few minutes of his time to hold a dialog with factory workers.
In the dialog, Kalla said the situation for domestic textile industries up to the end of this year would remain safe but because the purchasing power of buyers in international markets was drooping, the domestic industries should strive to increase their share in the market at home to 50 percent.
"To date there has had been no problem in the domestic textile market but the purchasing power of buyers in international markets, especially in the United States, is showing a downward trend," Kalla said.
On the occasion the vice president asked the textile producers to give him inputs on how to increase their domestic market share.
Meanwhile, API chairman Beni Sutrisno said the domestic market share of national textile industries now was 20 percent.
A textile maker, Edi Susanto, proposed to the vice president issue a regulation requiring textile transaction at home to be made in rupiahs instead of in US dollars.
On his way back from Dayeuhkolot garment factories to Husein Sastranegara airport here, the vice president called Gorontalo Governor Fadel Muhammad to have the latest information about three powerful earthquakes which had hit the province on Monday morning but the governor was not available.
Muhammad was not available when the vice president phoned him but an aide of Muhammad who received the call said the governor was away on a visit to Malang, East Java.
Kalla then called Gorontalo Vice Governor Gusnar Ismali and asked him to take all the necessary measures to help the victims of Monday morning's earthquakes.
Early Monday morning three powerful earthquakes measuring 7.7, 6.0, and 5.7 on the Richter scales consecutively struck the provinces of Gorontalo, North Sulawesi, and Central Sulawesi, causing the local residents to scramble out of their homes in panic.
