AFTA 2015 Destruction of Indonesian Economy

Indonesias population is the 4th largest in the world, therefore the State Indonesia will
always be an easy target for the target market of the various products world countries.
Nowadays, it is because we are weak purchasing power, the various types of products that
come, are a variety of low quality products originating from China at very cheap prices. Even
the marketing net has reached the street vendors throughout Indonesia. As a result, all
production of its kind in the nation be destroyed proved much variety of plastic and textile
mills and woodworking tools, childrens toys out of business. It all is the impact of the entry
into force of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) since 2010. All of the victims of
bankrupt entrepreneurs say we cannot compete with the price of Chinese low quality
products into Indonesia with a very low price. Yet the AFTA (Asean Free Trade Area) in
2015, the producers in Indonesia was not able to compete in the market in his own country
to face the goods imported from China. Countries of China, Japan, India, Thailand,
Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam has carried out the attack production to Indonesia long before
AFTA in 2015.

If we look at the various urban shopping center, we can see the various types of fast-food
snacks that have come from abroad (LN) and strangely visitors very much on the consumer
Indonesian citizens. This is proof marketing strategies that do the foreign party through
advertisements and films and our customers become victims of their ads. Can employers we
do like this strategy in many countries the target market? Can the Indonesian films can be
watched by many people of the world where we can attach various commodities production
with strategy National therein so that a consumer trend of the world?

Food needs such as salt, sugar, rice, flour, garlic, as well as fruits, Indonesia is still dependent
on imports from LN. Could it be that we can compete with Asean countries are already self-
sufficient in food needs? For clothing, clothing production of raw materials we are still fully
imported. In Indonesia, there has been no major industrial chemical production base of
various elements, so that production in Indonesia is still large import content.
Consequently, there is no production mainstay of Indonesia which could permanently have
strong competitiveness in the world. Indonesias rich natural resources can be improved if
there is industrial added value of supporting basic chemical raw materials independently.
The realization of AFTA in 2015 who lived only another year ahead, making the industry
position of Indonesia is not yet ready for it, which actually can be prepared since the end of
Suhartos leadership. We can see Gusdur leadership era, Megawati until Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono (SBY) is an era of national leadership that failed and a waste of time as well as
imaging and even to build infrastructure in various regions lengap they failed. The funny
thing in the era of Megawatis leadership, we are in the country (DN) of natural gas shortages
due to natural gas weve sold contracts to China (Gas Tangguh ) by Megawati Soekarno
Putri. Consequently, many national fertilizer factory nearly went bankrupt and was forced
to raise the prices of their fertilizer because the natural gas is very expensive even imported.
This is a stupidity and ignorance of our leaders have ever done in the past and there is no
careful planning. This is a difficult dilemma for the dissolution of all parties.