German machine producers look for local distributors<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): German machine manufacturers, currently taking
\npart in the five-day trade exhibition at the Jakarta Fairground
\nin Kemayoran here, are looking for Indonesian partners to help
\nmarket their products.<\/p>\n
An economic adviser of the German machinery and plant
\nmanufacturers association, Anke Uhlig, said here yesterday that
\nthe German companies need Indonesian partners, who would operate
\nas their marketing home-base in the Southeast Asian region.<\/p>\n
"We want to expand our market to emerging countries such as
\nmembers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN),"
\nUhlig said.<\/p>\n
Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore,
\nThailand and Vietnam are members of ASEAN.<\/p>\n
Uhlig said that Indonesia is one of the strongest emerging
\nmarkets in the Asia-Pacific region, which is now dominated by
\nJapanese and Korean products.<\/p>\n
Lexi Sumampow, the German-Indonesia Economic Association's
\npublic relations manager, said that the German government
\nencourages companies to increase exports but not to relocate
\ntheir industrial activities abroad because of Germany's high rate
\nof unemployment.<\/p>\n
He said the depreciation period of German goods is generally
\nlonger than for those made by other countries.<\/p>\n
Seventy small and medium-scale German companies are taking
\npart in the trade fair called Manufacturing Indonesia '95, which
\ncloses tomorrow.<\/p>\n
"The high number of German exhibitors demonstrates the ever
\nincreasing German interest in the Indonesian economy," said
\nUhlig.<\/p>\n
German exports of machinery to Indonesia rose steadily from
\nUS$172 million in 1987 to $612 million in 1994.<\/p>\n
"In the first half of this year, our deliveries to Indonesia
\nrose by 45 percent to $409 million from the same period of last
\nyear," she said. "The exports consisted of prime movers, textile
\nand woodworking machines, printing and paper machinery." (kod)<\/p>",
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