Jokowi Echoes For Hating Foreign Products, Palace: It Gives A Heroic Spirit

President Joko Widodo (Photo: Twitter @jokowi)

JAKARTA - The Chief Expert of the Presidential Staff Office (KSP) Dany Amrul Ichdan explained President Joko Widodo's intention to call on the people to hate foreign products.

Dany said Jokowi's intention was to encourage domestic producers of goods to compete with foreign products in the market.

"It is a foundation to provide a motivational spirit of heroic spirit which the head of state calls out to all stakeholders related to all Indonesian people that this is the time to rise," said Dany in a Youtube medcom id broadcast, Sunday, March 7.

Dany said, currently Indonesia is still dependent on imports in international trade. One thing that Indonesia has is its comparative advantage.

That is, the Indonesian market can provide an advantage on the impact of low cost or low cost business in a production process.

"So that it provides competitiveness towards the supply and demand effect mechanism on international trade," he said.

Meanwhile, other developed countries already have a competitive advantage. Given that currently it is still a pandemic, Dany said the government is developing a collaborative advantage.

This is done by repositioning the international trade system, including overhauling regulations on alignments, the role and mechanism of the market, e-market places and production processes, as well as distribution of MSMEs to have competitiveness.

"In adapting to new habits, we develop collaborative advantages. Placing the previously inefficient sector will be collaborated with the efficient sector or joint operation or co-branding, so that it produces the result of collaboration," explained Dany.

Previously, President Jokowi announced that the public would start hating foreign products and turn to love domestic products. This aims to increase sales from local producers in the future.

He emphasized that the love for local products will place micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in a strategic place.

Seeing the hectic public response, Jokowi explained that the invitation was a natural action so that Indonesia would not only depend on imported products. So that the Indonesian people can prioritize domestically made products.

"Yesterday I told you to love Indonesian products, to be proud of Indonesian products and maybe we don't like foreign products. We can't dislike foreign products, maybe we don't like foreign products. I'm talking about hating foreign products, it's just so busy. We may not like foreign products, "he said at the online opening of the 2021 HIPMI Rakernas, Friday, March 5.