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General Chairperson of the Indonesian Textile Association (API), Jemmy Kartiwa Sastraatmadja said that the threat of a global recession that was said to occur in 2023 was now felt for textile businesses. He said the export of textile products is now hampered until there is a decline. "Exports of current products have been felt to have fallen by 30 percent," he said on Thursday, October 27, 2022. Jemmy estimates that the decline in textile commodity exports will be worse next year. Europe and the United States, he said, were export destinations that experienced the greatest decline in purchasing power.

The global recession also affected not only Indonesia, because other largest textile product producing countries such as China, Bangladesh, Vietnam and India were also hit. In addition, the weakening of purchasing power in Europe and the United States triggered an increase in imports of textile products to Indonesia from these countries. So there is a tight competitiveness in the country.

"Trying to flood their products here because Indonesia is a country with the fourth largest population and inflation is not as bad as other countries," said Jemmy.

He considered the situation to be very disturbing to the national textile industry. On the one hand, he said, export demand has declined, but on the other hand, the domestic market has been flooded with imported products. The disturbance caused the textile industry's utilization to decline sharply. As a result, there is a reduction in employee working hours which eventually triggers termination of employment or layoffs.

Furthermore, Jemmy hopes that Indonesia can maintain the domestic market to revive the country's textile industry. "Protection of the domestic market is urgently needed," he said. Meanwhile, Trade Minister Zulkifli Hasan said the decline in exports in the textile sector occurred because up to now, exporters still rely on Western countries or traditional export markets.

"Britain alone is heavy, Europe is heavy because the Russian conflict is heavy," said the man who is familiarly called Zulhas.

Therefore, he suggested opening a new export market. The export destination countries that the Ministry of Trade will target are countries in Africa, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and South Asia.

Export opportunities to a number of these countries are very large because they are considered strong against the threat of a 2023 recession. "For example, Egypt, Nigeria, Morocco, also Asia. India has more than 1 billion people, not the Middle East, Central Asia, Eastern Europe. So we have to expand the market. I have opened this toll road," he said.

The Ministry of Trade also stated that it had entered into a trade agreement with the United Arab Emirates so that the export tax for Indonesia would be zero. He said that exporters in the clothing, footwear, food and agricultural products sectors could export to Africa and the Middle East more easily and cheaply.