JAKARTA - The National Police stated that in the process of procuring uniforms for members of the Bhayangkara Corps, it was in accordance with the direction of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi). The percentage of the budget used to buy local products reaches 98 percent.
This was stated by the Head of the Public Relations Division of the National Police Inspector General Dedi Prasetyo to the media at the National Police Headquarters, Jakarta, Monday, March 28. "Most of the spending on police goods uses domestic products, up to 98 percent."
Meanwhile, 2 percent is used to buy a number of equipment abroad. For example, buying clothes for the Jibom (bomb disposal) team with high standard security.
"There is still 2 percent purchased abroad that has not been produced domestically, namely bombing equipment. Bomb suits have a high security standard and they are procured for Gegana at the National Police Headquarters and 34 provinces at the Regional Police," said Dedi.
"Radiation-resistant clothes are produced by people or countries that have dealt with nuclear radiation because this involves the high safety of members," he continued.
On the other hand, Dedi also said that the use of the National Police's budget had met the target of the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Investments of 40 percent.
"The Indonesian National Police uses domestic products that are in line with the target from the ministry, 40 percent of the expenditure on goods must be spent on domestic production, the police have already exceeded that," said Dedi.
As previously reported, President Joko Widodo highlighted the large number of government procurements of goods and services carried out by buying foreign products, one of which was the National Police uniform.
In fact, according to Jokowi, a lot of domestic production can be reached for this procurement.
"We buy imported CCTV, some domestically can produce it. What is this? Do you think we are not a developed country? Just buy imported CCTV. We can buy military and police uniforms and shoes from outside. We can produce it everywhere. Don't continue," said Jokowi, as shown on the Presidential Secretariat's Youtube video, Friday, March 25.
"You don't have to look anywhere, you don't have to look for investors, we just stay quiet but consistently buy goods produced by our factories, industries, SMEs, why don't we do it? We'd be stupid if we didn't do this. buy imported goods. If we buy imported goods, imagine all the ladies and gentlemen, we give jobs to other countries. Our money, capital outflows go out. The work is there, not here,"
"Let's try to turn everything here, the goods we buy domestically mean there will be investment, meaning it will open up 2 million jobs. If we don't do this, once again, we are really stupid," said Jokowi.
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