Entrepreneurs in the textile industry sector openly say that the presidential candidate they will support in the 2024 elections is a leader who has a vision for the future economy or sustainable economic development. The textile sector is currently being hit by massive mass layoffs, especially in the garment sector. This was revealed by the Executive Director of the Indonesian Textile Association (API) BPP Danang Girindrawardana, Wednesday (5/7/2023). "Our country needs more sustainable economic development, which means we don't expect the presidential candidate to create or change the current economic platform. We side with the presidential candidate who will be able to give confidence to the business world to continue the economic program brought by Mr President Jokowi is currently not changing it," he said.

Danang said that his party wants a presidential candidate who is able to continue the good economic programs that have been developed at this time. But this is also accompanied by strong law enforcement, because the economic problems that are happening in Indonesia, according to him, actually do not lie in existing regulations, but in weak law enforcement.

"It is also important that we hope that the presidential candidate will be able to carry out law enforcement actions, because the economic problems in Indonesia are actually not in the existing regulations. he said.

"So we want a future president who is more capable of making strong law enforcement for any industry, not just the textile industry," he added.

The problem now is that law enforcement is less than the production of the law regulations themselves, so many of the regulations that are made are not accompanied by sufficiently strong law enforcement.

"The business world is vulnerable to acts of omission of violations, for example illegal importation, the issue of quotas issued by bureaucrats who do not follow the rules of import quota regulations. Now the problem we are facing is the problem of law enforcement, the regulations are very there are too many, but law enforcement is half-hearted," he said.

Danang hopes that the future presidential candidate must have an economic vision coupled with strong law enforcement. If not, later Indonesia will become an over regulated country or excessive regulations but minimal law enforcement.

However, regarding which presidential candidate the textile industry entrepreneurs will choose, Danang is still reluctant to comment, because according to him it is still too premature for entrepreneurs to reveal the name of the presidential candidate he has chosen for now.

"It's not easy for us to name names, because the time has not yet come, because this is just a declaration from each party, the KPU has not been confirmed by the KPU as an election management body, so actually this is still practical political euphoria but has not yet reached electability. "So it's still very premature if the business world mentions names, I don't think it's now. So we're still waiting for the announcement from the KPU later," he said.

Danang said, within the membership of the API itself there are at least around 700 textile industry entrepreneurs who are members. Where of the 700 numbers include 3.4 million workers.

"So the number is quite large. So usually we can invite these workers to vote for a presidential candidate who has more insight into the economy going forward, because this will affect the fate of our workers," he said.