Denies Supply Of Tangerang DPRD Service Uniforms, Louis Vuitton: We Don't Have A Business Segment For That

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JAKARTA - The procurement of official clothes for members of the Tangerang City DPRD is being questioned because they will use the international label line, Louis Vuitton for their uniforms or official clothes in 2021. Louis Vuitton Indonesia spoke about the news. They admitted that they did not supply official clothing or uniforms for the Tangerang City Council. In fact, LV also confirmed that it does not have a sales line for materials and uniforms. "We have no cooperation with the government on this matter and Louis Vuitton does not have a business segment for fabric procurement or uniform manufacture," said Eunike Santosa, communication manager for Louis Vuitton Indonesia to VOI. , Tuesday, August 10. Furthermore, Eunike also emphasized that Louis Vuitton had nothing to do with the procurement of the uniform. So far, Louis Vuitton only provides ready-to-wear clothing (ready to wear) in limited collections.

Previously, social media was shocked about the news that the official clothes of Tangerang DPRD members would use materials from the well-known fashion brand Louis Vuitton. Interestingly, not only using Louis Vuitton material, this Tangerang DPRD member's clothes have several types of clothing made from different materials, but still expensive brands. For daily civilian clothes (PDH), while their material is Lanificio Di Calvino for official civil clothes (PSR), while for daily civilian clothes (PSH) they will use Theodora brand and complete civil clothes (PSL) using Thomas Crown branded materials," Pokja ULP Secretariat of the DPRD Council Tangerang City, Hadi Sudibjo. This plan to make official clothes has also caused a lot of polemics, especially from the community. Many of them think that this plan does not really think about the condition of the people who have suffered enough in the midst of the current pandemic. Quoting from the website www.lpse.tangerangkota.go.id, the budget for the manufacture and expenditure of materials for the clothes of the Tangerang City DPRD 2021 reached Rp675. million. From the same site, the budget for the procurement of clothing materials is Rp. 312.5 million in 2020. The chairman of the Tangerang DPRD, Gatot Wibowo, denied that the brand was deliberately appointed. He admitted that he did not know about the brand. He was even confused, why this thing became crowded after the winner of the tender was announced.