Focus on Maintaining the Domestic Market
Business people are finding it difficult to spur exports amid sluggish international trade and the global economic slowdown . The short-term realistic step that Indonesia needs to take is to maintain the domestic market and improve or at least keep the deficit from deepening.
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Fish canning workers pack lemuru fish at a canning factory owned by PT Pacific Harvest in Muncar, Banyuwangi, East Java, on Wednesday, May 8, 2019.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS — Business people are finding it difficult to spur exports amid sluggish international trade and the global economic slowdown . The short-term realistic step that Indonesia needs to take is to maintain the domestic market and improve or at least keep the deficit from deepening.
Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) export development committee chairman Handito Joewono, when contacted on Friday (7/6/2019), stated that in the medium and long-term, Indonesia inevitably had to develop exports. The economic structure must also continue to be strengthened by encouraging productivity.