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Who Controls Textile Imports

Monday, October 27, 2025

A number of yarn and fabric factories are reducing more than half of their production after getting hit by a wave of cheap imported products. Who is pulling the strings?

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Illegal textiles seized by the Import Task Force are stored at the Customs and Excise Temporary Storage Area in Cikarang, Bekasi Regency, West Java, August 6, 2024. Tempo/Tony Hartawan. tempo : 176565714793.

AT a glance, the government’s data paints a rosy picture of the textile and textile products industry. According to the Statistics Indonesia (BPS), exports of textiles, textile products, and footwear reached US$13.17 billion from January to September 2025, up 4.51 percent from the same period last year. This sector also contributed 3.82 percent to the national gross domestic product (GDP).

But talk to business owners on the ground and the

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Fery Firmansyah
Executive Editor for Economy and Business

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