The country's textile industry still has to deal with the large number of smuggling of imported products that enter illegally. Secretary General of the Indonesian Filament Yarn and Fiber Producers Association (APSyFI), Redma Gita Wirawasta, revealed that smugglers use various methods to get their goods into Indonesia.

"They go by wooden ships, such as barges but not for coal. These wooden ships have a large capacity, more than 10 containers, but they don't use containers, they use balki but if the capacity is calculated it reaches 10 containers," he said.

The origin of the smuggling of goods generally comes from China, the goal is not to lead to large ports such as Tanjung Priok, but to small ports and even beaches. He said more efforts were needed to detect the potential for smuggling. Moreover, this method has been going on for a long time.

"It's been a long time but not massive. In the past, those who used ships were used clothes, mostly in the past. Now in cloth, new clothes come in through there, the mode is to go to small ports on the coast, small ports go straight into trucks," he explained. redma.

In order to solve this problem, textile entrepreneurs requested a meeting with policy makers, in this case the Directorate General of Customs and Excise, Ministry of Finance. However, until now there has been no direct meeting to resolve the problem.

"Yesterday, we had a discussion, customs tried to find a solution, it was a bit difficult for Customs friends, for ports it is the responsibility of Customs, but when it comes to small ports like that, there are limitations too," he said.