Ahead of Eid al-Fitr, small and medium industry (IKM) textile sector operators admit that there has been no spike in orders like in previous years. The business actors who usually work on the orders of Tanah Abang market traders and several other markets are at a loss. Even some entrepreneurs were forced to temporarily suspend their business activities ahead of this Eid because there were no orders to carry out. Chairman of the Bandung Convection Entrepreneurs Association (IPKB) Nandi Herdiaman estimates that the lack of orders is due to the issue of the world economic shock this year.

In fact, according to him, IPKB members in previous years often became producers of various products sold in quite large domestic markets, including Tanah Abang Market as well as Pasar Baru in Jakarta.

"Maybe it's because of the recession issue, the investors [traders] don't want to produce a lot because they're afraid it won't sell well in the market, so the impact is that we don't have orders," said Nandi

According to him, in previous years, IPKB which oversees 500 IKM in Bandung will be flooded with orders for this Ramadan moment from the previous six months. But now, many of its members are biting their fingers.

"IKM only produces production, so the quieter size can be seen from the usual six months or three months before Ramadan, our members have full orders, they can no longer accept orders. Now, even before Ramadan, we are still accepting orders," he added.

With this assumption, Nandi ensures that there is no year to year (yoy) increase in orders, because last year his party was still able to fully enjoy the IKM production capacity under IPKB from three months before Ramadan came.

"There has not been a spike as usual, in fact some of the IKMs have still not had work until now, the machines are still empty, it's still better for last year's Eid, last year's Eid convection is full of orders from the previous three months [Ramadan]," explained Nandi.

Instead of enlivening the flood of orders ahead of Idul Fitri, Nandi said that his party was helped by the start of orders from political parties.

"It's not an Eid order, it's actually a blessing for the party's orders," said Nandi.

According to him, orders from political parties ahead of the upcoming 2024 political year are enough to make some IKM members not need to lay off workers. Although the order has not been evenly distributed to all IPKB members. Thus, there are some members who are still waiting for orders to be executed in order to maintain their business activities.