2012 Indonesian Textile Industry is predicted to have Slow Growth

Indonesia's textile industry growth in 2012 is forecast to grow slowly or about 2 percent compared to last year, according to the Indonesian Textile Association (API).

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"We predict the growth of the world textile industry in general will decline next year, only Indonesia and ASEAN countries are able to have minor growth," said Chairman of the API, Ade Sudrajat in Jakarta, Friday (2 / 12).

He said, the decrease growth of the world textile industry, due to the debt crisis of the United States and Europe plus China's economic slowdown. The crisis, he said, causing the decrease in textile supply demand, so that the national production is likely to decrease, despite growing slowly.

"Previous year the growth could reach 20 percent, but next year we expect only 2 percent growth," he said. He also estimates the production cost of the national textile industry will rise next year, as various government policies will be set next year.

A number of policy that is perceived to be burdensome to the textile sector in Indonesia, including the plan of increasing Electricity Basic Tariff (TDL). He estimates the national textile production cost will rise above 10 percent next year compared to this year.

"The government should pay more attention to this industry which is labor-intensive industries, one of them by speeding up infrastructure development," he said, affirmed. The slow pace of infrastructure development, according to him, would inhibit the growth of industry in general.

Until the end of this year, the industry has not directly feel the impact of the global economic crisis, but he predicts it will begin to be impact in early next year.

Source: Analisa, Medan