Jokowi Says Government Furniture And BUMN Expenditures Are Filled With Imported Products, The Value Is IDR 17 Trillion

President Joko Widodo. (Photo: Doc. ANTARA)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) revealed that the government's furniture or furniture expenditure and state-owned enterprises (BUMN) are mostly filled with imported products. In fact, the value reaches IDR 17 trillion.

"If we join the APBN, APBD, and BUMN expenditures in 2023, it has reached Rp1,236 trillion. This expenditure is not only furniture and furniture delivered, Mr. Dedy exceeds 1.1, which means Rp17 trillion. Very big and a lot of it is filled by imported furniture," he said as quoted from the Presidential Secretariat's YouTube, Thursday, September 14.

Therefore, Jokowi encourages the Indonesian Furniture and Crafts Industry Association (Asmindo) so that domestically made furniture products are put into e-catalog so that they can be absorbed by the government and state-owned companies.

"Therefore, immediately input all of our furniture production into the catalog to make it easier. This means that the ball is in all of you who want to open up to partnering and want to take up 100 percent of the domestic market should be taken by Asmindo. It should be," said Jokowi.

Furthermore, Jokowi said an invitation to Asmindo to enter furniture products into e-catalog because the government wants Indonesian furniture products to dominate the domestic market.

"The government continues to encourage domestic markets not to be controlled by furniture products from outside," he explained.

The former mayor of Solo also regretted that Indonesian products were inferior to products from Vietnam and Malaysia.

In fact, Indonesia's furniture or furniture market contribution only contributed 2.8 billion US dollars.

"This means that it is still very small and we in Indonesia are ranked 17, under Vietnam, which is ranked second under Malaysia in rank 12. Even though we are resource raw materials, our human resources are very ready," he said.