A number of business associations such as the Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo) to actors in the SME sector enterprise (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) requested FTA agreement with China was postponed.
"Not a single Indonesian products in the manufacturing sector that could hit the market in China. In fact, precisely the opposite is true, we are going to increasingly become a market," said the chairman of Apindo Sofjan Wanandi.
Indonesia's ability to export into China market is in the field of raw materials or raw materials such as natural resources of gas, coal, or oil palm, while for products to be considered helpless.
Powerlessness against China it's been a long time. And FTA only confirmed the raid Indonesia helplessness manufactured goods, not only from China, but also from developed countries including the neighboring countries of ASEAN.
One Who?
Is there something wrong with the scientists and researchers in the country due to calm the nation deal with the powerlessness of this constant?
Secretary of State Ministry of Research and Technology Lakitan Benjamin admitted that not much research in the country, adopted by the industry and that people prefer to buy goods and technology from abroad.
"A lot of research in the country who do not salable, it could be because many technology products whose development is not oriented to the real needs of society," he admitted.
He asserted that it was not 100 percent wrong if more people chose technology from abroad, because the technology of vacuum in the country.
According to him, there are often differences in definitions of `anything-that-useful` between the researchers and industry, plus researchers are often preoccupied itself and not sensitive enough to the real problems and needs.
Meanwhile, Deputy Assistant Diffusion and Dissemination of State Ministry of Research Science and Technology, Santoso Yudo Warsono, remain optimistic in 2010 and welcomed the importance of innovation to increase the added value of export commodities.
"The need to innovate can not be separated from the conditions of our export commodities are still dominated by products of raw materials or intermediate goods. In fact, if the product will be processed first increase added value," he said.
According to him, actually had hundreds of innovations that have been developed by universities, R & D institutions such as BPPT, LIPI, Batan, industry, and even the general public, who are ready to be applied in the production sector.
"Whether in an effort to increase efficiency in poduksi processes, improve product quality, even to provide added value from natural raw materials with new product development," he said.
Examples of innovations that potentially penetrate the world market is what has been produced by Linawati Hardjito from IPB that has been developed to extract, process, use and formulation of mangrove seeds as a sunscreen active ingredients.
"The potential of our natural resources that one is often forgotten, but our society is traditionally much use of mangrove seeds to protect from the sun," he said.
Although it still needs some improvements like aroma that is preferred by consumers, but the results of this innovation has been targeted by foreign companies from Germany, he said.
In addition, any current BPPT has produced many innovations that not only can replace imported products in the country but also a market abroad, one of which is the Floating Pipe of Natural Rubber.(Dewanti Lestari)
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