Association: Entry Of Import Textile Goods Hambut Domestic Market Domination

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Textile Association (API) said the entry of textile imported goods and textile products (TPT) hampered the growth of the sector to dominate the domestic market.

API Executive Director Danang Girindrawardana in his official statement in Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Wednesday, May 29, said that since two years ago the TPT industry was forced to reduce nearly 100 thousand of its workers, and began to improve in 2022. However he said the regulation on the relaxation of imported goods contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Trade (Permendag) 8/2024 has the potential to make the domestic market dominated by imported garment and textile products. He said the incurrence made the TPT industry unable to host in its own country. In addition, stakeholders in the TPT industry have also repeatedly reminded the government to stop imports of textiles and garments. "Within five months there have been four changes in Permendag to Permendag 8 of 2024," he said. The government hopes that the government will reimplement import restrictions and restrictions (late) so that it can maintain the climate of the TPT sector so that it can dominate the domestic and international markets. Previously, the Ministry of Industry called the textile industry and textile products (TPT) worried about the dominance of imported goods due to the relaxation of restrictions and restrictions (laltas) in regulation of Permendag 8/2024 which no longer imposes technical considerations (Pertek).

Currently, the performance of the TPT industry is at an expansive level, and shows positive growth. This can be seen from data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) which states that the sub-sector of the textile and clothing industry has increased by 2.64 percent (year on year/yoy) in the first quarter of 2024. Meanwhile, in the same period, foreign demand for textile and clothing products also experienced an increase in volume, namely 7.34 percent (yoy) for textile products, and 3.08 percent (yoy) for finished clothing. Therefore, with the elimination of Pertek, it could trigger a decrease in the contribution of the TPT industry, as well as have a direct impact on the sustainability of the sector.