Hanger even imported, Luhut Furious

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – The coordinating minister for Maritime Affairs and Investments, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, said that Indonesia likes to import goods. In fact, the hangers are also imported from other countries.

He exposed it to professors from various universities in the virtual broadcast of the National Defense Institute (Lemhanas).

“For example, we are still importing, you can imagine that our clothes hangers are still imported. I told LKPP (the Government Goods / Services Procurement Policy Agency), What are you doing are all imports. Just tell me to do it in the field. That’s not rocket sains. Why not? ”He said on Friday (10/23/2020).

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Furthermore, Luhut said, Indonesia has often depended on natural resources for decades. Therefore, the government is trying to reduce the exploitation of nature.

“Our natural wealth has always depended on it for decades, now we no longer want it that way. We want to add added value, create jobs, technology, then also taxes and value added all of us, “he said.

Not only that, Luhut also revealed that many ministries / agencies (K / L) when making government purchases are actually used to import goods.

“So we have 200 trillion rupees in funds to spend programs like this. Many ministries / agencies (K / L) only import, they do not use domestic products. It is a life take, so this opportunity is done by all of us,” he said.

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Luhut added that the government is trying various ways to suppress and reduce import activities. For example, promoting spending on national products, processing natural resources such as coal for national management.

“We are carrying out reforms to make Indonesia more efficient, creating 2.9 million jobs every year, as the president did yesterday. So sometimes a lot of people don’t see it and think that everything is wrong. So this is the data that I transmit all. ” he said.