30 Shoe Factories Move Out Of The West Claws This Year.

Though not optimistic at the beginning of the year, the first quarter of this year is domestic. shoes Industry began to see positive business opportunities, several shoe factory relocation, resulting in shoes exports again higher than expected targets.

Originally, the Indonesian Footwear Association (Aprisindo) decided that this year's export index increased by only 5% to $4 billion 100 million. In mid March, Eddy Wijanarko, chairman of the footwear industry association, predicted that exports would reach $4 billion 400 million this year. "The increase in domestic production has supported the increase in exports."

Especially in the United States, the largest export market of shoes in China has begun to improve, and the European countries, which account for 27% of the total value of exports, have begun to improve, accounting for 26% of the total export value.

Nevertheless, Addie said, footwear industry The biggest challenge is the minimum wage (UMR) at the provincial level. At present, shoe manufacturers are unable to bear the burden of workers. To maintain business, last year, several shoe companies moved their factories to areas with lower minimum wage in the province. Earlier this year, 21 shoe companies moved from West Java. "Most of them are moved to Central Java and East Java."

Next, there were 9 shoe factories relocating. The total number of shoe factories moved to this year reached 30. Although Addie did not elaborate on the title of every enterprise, there were contractors from Nike (Nike store) (Nike store) (Nike), Adidas (Adidas store) (Adidas) and Reebok (Reebok) products.

Addie said that when the export market began to recover, domestic sales would stagnate, and domestic shoe production and sales would be cold. If the situation persists until the end of the year, the sales of shoes in the domestic market will drop to 27 megabytes. Last year, the sales of shoes in the domestic market reached 30 megabytes. "At ordinary times, sales are improving near universal suffrage, but now, Shoe store Reduce orders and worry about not selling.