South Sulawesi Police Chief Will Take Action On Shipments Of Imported Used Clothing

South Sulawesi Police Chief, Inspector General Nana Sudjana (left)/ANTARA/Darwin Fatir.

MAKASSAR - South Sulawesi Regional Police Chief Inspector General Pol Nana Sudjana emphasized that he is ready to take action against senders and recipients of imported clothing or thrifting practices according to the orders of the Indonesian National Police Chief General Listyo Sigit Prabowo because they are considered to be disruptive to the textile industry.

"We are following up and will process it when goods enter our territory in South Sulawesi," the regional police chief emphasized after observing the mass circumcision at the South Sulawesi Regional Police Biddokes, Jalan Kumala Makassar, reported by ANTARA, Monday, March 20.

Related to the order from the chief of police regarding the supervision of smuggling of imported used clothes or in the language of trends in South Sulawesi Cakar alias 'Cap Sacks' which is increasingly prevalent in South Sulawesi, said Nana, continues to monitor all levels of the police sector.

"So of course we follow up when Cakar enters South Sulawesi. So far the South Sulawesi Regional Police, including several Polres, have also carried out the same thing and will process if goods come in," said the former Metro Jaya Police Chief.

According to him, according to the instructions of the National Police Chief, all ranks were activated to take action against smugglers of used clothes from abroad to be resold to the public.

"So it's active. Not only were we ordered, but some time ago we had also taken repressive steps or taken action against the Claws," said the former North Sulawesi Regional Police Chief.

This is also in line with Regulation of the Minister of Trade number 51 of 2015 concerning the Prohibition of Importing Used Clothing, and Regulation of the Minister of Trade number 40 of 2022 concerning Amendments to Regulation of the Minister of Trade number 18 of 2021 concerning Export Prohibited Goods and Import Prohibited Goods.

Article 2 paragraph 3 states that goods are prohibited from being imported, in the form of used bags, used sacks, and used clothes. However, since the issuance of this regulation, smuggling, and sales of used clothing has continued to occur in a number of areas since 2021.

Previously, National Police Chief Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo instructed all of his staff to take firm action against the smuggling of imported used clothes according to President Joko Widodo's directives because they were seen as disrupting the growth of the domestic textile industry.