RI goods higher quality than foreigners': Minister<\/p>\n
Abdul Khalik, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Thousands of businesspeople in the textile and food industries
\nnationwide are expected to participate in the Indonesian Product
\nExhibition (PPI) 2004 in May and September in Jakarta and five
\nother cities.<\/p>\n
Minister of Industry and Trade Rini Soewandi said on Monday
\nthat the exhibition was aimed at raising public awareness about
\nthe high quality of Indonesian products, as well as encouraging
\npeople to use local products.<\/p>\n
\"Our products can now compete with foreign products. As a
\nmatter of fact, many of our products have even higher quality
\nthan the foreign products. We hope the exhibition can boost
\ncommitment to using local products,\" Rini confidently asserted.<\/p>\n
She argued the fact that Indonesia could sell US$50 billion
\nworth of non-oil and gas products abroad last year showed that
\nthe quality of Indonesian products had been internationally
\nrecognized.<\/p>\n
Rini also said that the PPI was intended to give regional
\nbusinesspeople the opportunity to promote their products because
\nmany of them complained about the lack of opportunities to
\ndisplay their products at the national level.<\/p>\n
The PPI will be open to the public from May 26 to 28 at the
\nJakarta Convention Center in Central Jakarta, while Makassar,
\nPalembang, Surabaya, Mataram and Samarinda, will host a similar
\nexhibition in September.<\/p>\n
The exhibitions will concentrate on textiles and textile
\nproducts as well as food products.<\/p>\n
All 32 provinces will be represented in the Jakarta
\nexhibition, while hundreds of businesspeople from 15 associations
\nwill also take part. The committee will provide around three
\nthousand booths for them.<\/p>\n
The programs in the exhibition will include textiles and
\ntextile product displays, fashion shows, a design contest,
\ntraditional food displays, a cooking contest and seminars on
\ntextile and food.<\/p>\n
The Director General of Domestic Trade Affairs, Erni Rifana,
\nsaid that the government also hoped that the exhibition could
\nbring local buyers straight to the producers.<\/p>\n
The PPI will be participated in by small, medium and large
\nscale producers. Special, lower booth fees are provided for the
\nsmaller scale businesses in order to promote their growth.<\/p>\n
\"We have subsidized small and middle scale participants as
\nwell as the participants from the regions by giving them much
\nlower prices on the booths,\" said Erni.<\/p>",
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