ASEAN Free Trade Zone Is Built: Foreign Enterprises Invest Heavily In Indonesia'S Footwear Industry

Since the implementation of the agreement on the free trade area between ASEAN and China, the Indonesian market has not seen the phenomenon of "Chinese shoes" entering the market. On the contrary, many Indonesian footwear companies have been attracting huge amounts of foreign investment.

Budi, director of various industrial divisions of the Ministry of industry, Ministry of metal machinery and textiles, said recently in Jakarta that 10 shoemaking enterprises from China, South Korea and Thailand said they would invest about 1.5 to 200 million dollars in the year to Indonesia's footwear industry.

The investors are preparing to build a shoe production base in Indonesia. The selected areas include Daglan, Wan Dan, Xu Tu Li Zu, Yan Wang, Merl Zoger do and Bandung.

These investors believe that the cities already have sufficient infrastructure and better investment environment, especially in the stable political and social environment.

Budi said: the new shoe factory can absorb about 10 thousand of the local residents.

The above 10 foreign shoe industries originally planned to build a production base in Indonesia in 2008. They were delayed several times due to the global financial crisis and Indonesia's power shortage.

Now Indonesia is no longer affected by the aftermath of the global crisis, and the investment environment in the footwear industry is getting better and better. The 10 overseas enterprises have applied for investment permits to the Indonesian investment co ordinating Agency (BKPM) on 31 December 2009, and will soon invest.