Export Shoes Can Translucent $ 2 M

 Indonesian footwear exports Realization of this year is expected to break the $ 2 billion, an increase of around 7 percent compared to the realization years ago that listed only USD1, 87 billion.

Chairman of the Association of Indonesian footwear (Aprisindo) Eddy Widjanarko said the shoe market will still grow despite the negative impact of haunted by the world economic slowdown. "We're optimistic that order until end of the year will continue to increase. In fact, there is a conviction can grow up to USD2 billion in December later," he said in Jakarta yesterday.

According to him, there are several factors that can drive profitable growth in exports of shoes and the national producers, namely the problems that hit the two countries become exporters of shoes that Indonesian competitors ie China and Vietnam.

"They (pengorder) sees no obstacles in China and Vietnam. China is plagued Urumqi conflict problem, whereas there is a problem in the Vietnamese labor. This causes the transfer of more order into the country," he said.

In addition to competition conditions in the two countries, he said, the national shoe export performance is also supported by domestic factors that affect customer shoes overseas.

"First, they see the implementation of the Presidential Election (Presidential Elections) in 2009 went well, meaning a safe condition. Second, national economic conditions are also considered stable enough so that it deems appropriate to make a reservation," he said.

Eddy added, it also optimistic that the national shoe industry could control 60 percent of total domestic footwear market to reach Rp25 trillion.

Known, so far the domestic shoe market is still dominated shoe imports up 60 percent while the rest, 40 percent, a national shoe industry. According to him, the implementation of the Ministry of Trade Regulations (Permendag) No 56/2008 on tightening import sufficient impact on improving the composition of domestic shoe mastery of the national shoe market.

"With it (Permendag), all manufacturers can produce," he said. As is known, the government imposed tighter import policies of five products, namely food and beverages, textiles and textile products, toys, shoes, and electronics throughout January to December 2009.

Related to this, the Chairman of the Indonesian Exporters Association (GPEI) Benny Soetrisno has asked the government to extend the application of a tightening of import rules until the formation of the ASEAN Single Window (ASW) at end of year 2012. According to him, the implementation of this policy is effective enough to stem the flood of imports of the five products.

"If the ASW is formed, we have fortified the onslaught of foreign goods," he said.

Known, the implementation of the ASW auto market will provide protection from the ASEAN countries import goods from outside the invasion area. Because, ASW make oversight of export-import traffic into lebihketat. Selamaini, barangimpor illegally from China usually transit in Singapore and Malaysia, before finally coming to Indonesia.