National Textiles Are The Spotlight Of Indonesian Political Houses

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JAKARTA - Political dielectrics in the world of national textiles have returned to the spotlight by the Director of Indonesian Political House, Fernando Emas.

"Based on quick study on the correlation of negative narratives against fiscal instruments such as BMAD (Anti-Dumping Entering Cave) and BMTP (Security Measure In Cash) played by the Textile Association has been going on for a long time, and finally the POY and PWY BMAD threads by APSYFi are also by APIs in other fiscals," Fernando said, in his statement, Monday, August 25.

According to the Director of Indonesian Political Houses, the negative narrative patterns that are carried out include imported floods, closed factories, losing competitiveness with other countries aim to smooth out proposals for fiscal incentives in the form of BMAD, BMTP to pressure the government.

"There is a matter of connoisseurs from this instrument, yes, they are especially members, not the Indonesian people. On the one hand, it is seen as protection, in fact for decades the supply of threads and fabrics in the country remains lacking and expensive," said Fernando.

Fernando did not question the incentives but the negative narrative actually weakens Indonesia's position in investment attractions and national textile competitiveness.

"They should be given protection to strengthen supply chain and investment instead become connoisseurs as well as imports and betlokasi in braided areas, it is ironic," Fernando criticized.

"The bad example carried out by the Textile Association is that currently destroying the ideals of Asta Cita Presiden Prabowo basically if BMAD was passed yesterday, there would be massive layoffs of tens of thousands of people in Textile Hilir. Fortunately, policymakers in the Prabowo Government are currently very smart and wise to reject BMAD's proposed Textile Association," Fernando quipped.

Fernando studied BMAD's proposals since 2010, the Textile Association has always begun to spread negative narratives to pressure the government and repeat every new proposal.

"We analyzed hundreds of media before the proposal began and praised after the proposal was approved, this was carried out by APSYFi and API. For this reason, the Indonesian Political House proposed to the government that the existing Textile Association be dissolved and formed a new Association consisting of true entrepreneurs, not chameleon businessmen," said Fernando.

From a political perspective, Fernando saw that the President's efforts to advance the economy and has now begun to rise with the growth of the textile industry in 2025 reaching 4 percent.

"But being hit by a negative narrative by the Textile Association like this actually weakens the government," Fernando concluded.