The raw materials for the products of Tarakan's micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), which are still dependent on outside the region, have not yet received the right policy. This was acknowledged by the Head of the North Kalimantan (Kaltara) Department of Trade, Industry, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Cooperatives (Disdakop), Hasriyani to the media crew on Friday (23/6). "I hope that there are business actors who have large capital, who can build textile factories for North Kalimantan," said Hasriyani. Furthermore, that Kaltara currently does not have a textile factory, while to make a product requires raw materials such as yarn and cloth. Even so, Hasriyani admitted that his

party remains optimistic because MSME actors in Kaltara currently have a strong enthusiasm to take advantage of the potential that exists in the local area even though it is within limitations.

"Not from Kaltara which still takes materials from outside to make products, but there are also other areas that are more blooming and until now the distribution of raw materials is still from outside," he explained.

In making this textile factory, it is still quite long. Because to make the material still needed raw materials to make cloth. Only to make it easier for business actors to have costs that are not too large and the price is able to compete with batik from outside, he hopes that in the future there will be local entrepreneurs who are able to help MSMEs to provide the raw materials needed so as to help MSME actors so that MSME products can compete .

Regarding the quality of motifs, said Hasriyani, it certainly has its own uniqueness because Kaltara MSMEs have utilized the existing potential as well as Kaltara craftsmen which other regions may not have. "Our motive is local, and this is our challenge, at least so far we can give MSME actors to conduct mentoring training in terms of capital and competency development, so that their products can compete with foreign products, with the hope that our products will not only be local. national but international," he explained.

So far, continued Hasriyani, most of Kaltara's raw materials have been imported from Surabaya, such as fabrics, textile dyes and all tools. Because Kaltara does not yet have a factory. "Not only do we have this problem, but because we are at the end of the road, transportation is much more expensive than areas in Surabaya which are near factories," he explained.