Furniture Industry Matters Taken to Limited Meeting

JAKARTA, KOMPAS — The government will bring the topic of the declining furniture industry to a limited Cabinet meeting. This move has been taken because there are many inter ministerial and institutional policies that affect the fate and performance of the furniture industry.

“We want the issue to be taken to a limited meeting because it concerns inter ministerial and institutional policies,” Acting Industry Ministry secretary-general Haris Munandar said on Tuesday (28/3).

Haris said the import of raw materials for wooden furniture, which did not grow in Indonesia, would relate to the quarantine policy. Sometimes, obtaining an Import Tax Waiver for Materials for Export Oriented Goods (KITE) requires a recommendation from the Environment and Forestry Ministry. It takes time and an elongated process creates problems for the furniture industry.