Domestic Market Is Government Priority

Presiden Susilo Bambang Yodhoyona confirm that governmant will push economi activity to domestic market. Inter-island and inter-province trading is inclouded in it. "We must admit that equal distribution has not yet been optimally achieved and therefore businesses must not always be export-oriented because the 230 million population is also a market," he said at a general lecture at the Surabaya Institute of Technology (ITS) here on Tuesday.





This is now trading just concentrated in big cities like Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Bandung and Makassar. Though many of the island and another province that remains to be explored and improved economy.

For example, in eastern Indonesia such as in Jayapura, Biak, Kupang and Maluku Islands for commodities like fish, but for agricultural produce such as rice, vegetables and other commodities such as building materials is very difficult. so with the collection and inter-trade between provinces will be improved to reduce economic disparities.


In addition to reducing economic inequality, trade and inter-provincial inter-collection can also expand the domestic market, so the value of selling a product in a region will increase