Indonesia's Kratom Export Destination Country In 2023

Kratom Export Destination Country - Chrotom Leave Image (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

YOGYAKARTA - In 2019, the export value of Indonesian crotoms has been reduced by 38.74% to US$ 9, 95 million. However, from 2019 to 2022, the export value of krotoms has always been developed with a trend of 15.92% per year. So where do you think the country to export crotoms?

The positive export performance took place again in 2023, where in the January-May 2023 period, the export value of Indonesian krotoms grew 52.04% to US$ 7, 33 million. Likewise with the export volume, the value of development is 51.49% when compared to the same period in 2022.

What Is Kratom

To note, this plant is developing in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea. Kratom has the Latin name Mitrayna Speciosa. Kratom also has other terms in parts of Southeast Asia, including ketum, cursing, or breeding in Malaysia, krotom, kadam, or ithang in Thailand, purok or ketum in West Kalimantan, kedamba or kedemba in East Kalimantan, as well as greetings or Sepat in Central and South Kalimantan.

Kratom thrives in an area with slightly wet soil. Kratom plants in the form of perdu plants with a magnitude of up to: 15 meters, with branches spreading more than: 4, 5 meters, having rods that are straight and branched, have yellow flowers and are in a round group.

The krotom leaves have a shiny, smooth, and egg-shaped dark dang green color. The leaves can develop for more than 18 centimeters and a width of 10 centimeters.

In Indonesia, Kratom has become an endemic plant that has developed in several areas in Kalimantan. Residents have used Kratom for centuries as a natural medicine to overcome various health problems.

The Ministry of Trade (Kemendag) plans to open the tap for the export of Kratom herbal plants.

At this time, the Ministry of Trade is still waiting for the results of studies from various technical institutions / ministries because the atomic leaves are said to have contents that can be categorized as narcotics class I.

As is known, in terms of natural resources (SDA), Kratom leaves in Indonesia are indeed quite abundant, but currently it is still in the process of extracting from the substance of the Kratom plant itself.

Citing information from the Ministry of Trade in the January-May 2023 period, here are 10 export destinations.

1. United Amarika

2. Germany

3. India

4. Republic Czech

5. Japan

6. Netherlands

7. China

8. South Korea

9. Taiwan

10. United Arab Emirates.

If you look at the country's main export destination for Kratom Indonesia, the United States (US) ranks early in the January-May 2023 period, at US$4, 86 million with a proportion of 66, 3% of total exports, accompanied by Germany at US$0, 61 million, India at US$0, 44 million, and the Czech Republic at US$0, 39 million.

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