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        "id": 1027676,
        "msgid": "retailers-told-to-improve-1447893297",
        "date": "1996-11-02 00:00:00",
        "title": "Retailers told to improve",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Retailers told to improve JAKARTA (JP): An analyst warned yesterday that domestic retailers would face fiercer competition from their foreign rivals and therefore should develop strategies to exploit their advantages. \"We can no longer avoid the expansion of foreign retailers into Indonesia because, as a matter of fact, they exist here under franchise arrangements,\" director of the Indonesian Business Data Center Christianto Wibisono said at a retail business convention.",
        "content": "<p>Retailers told to improve<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): An analyst warned yesterday that domestic<br>\nretailers would face fiercer competition from their foreign<br>\nrivals and therefore should develop strategies to exploit their<br>\nadvantages.<\/p>\n<p>\"We can no longer avoid the expansion of foreign retailers<br>\ninto Indonesia because, as a matter of fact, they exist here<br>\nunder franchise arrangements,\" director of the Indonesian<br>\nBusiness Data Center Christianto Wibisono said at a retail<br>\nbusiness convention.<\/p>\n<p>He suggested the government allow foreign retailers to come to<br>\nIndonesia on a reciprocal basis which would require the<br>\nretailers' countries to let in more Indonesian products.<\/p>\n<p>\"To secure the future of Indonesia's retail business,<br>\ndemocratization of business activities and deregulation will be<br>\nabsolutely essential,\" Christianto said.<\/p>\n<p>Christianto said small retailers should focus on specific<br>\nproducts because they could not depend on bigger retailers for<br>\nhelp.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday's convention was part of a three-day retail<br>\nexhibition organized by the Indonesian Retailers Association<br>\n(Aprindo). It was held at the Jakarta Fair Ground in Central<br>\nJakarta.<\/p>\n<p>Aprindo, established 1994, groups 184 retailers. (06)<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/retailers-told-to-improve-1447893297",
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