Chinese laptops dominate the Indonesian market as the national laptop industry does not exist. Laptop import per November 2009 has jumped by 38 percent compared to the figure exactly a year before. The total import value per November 2009 is 461 million US dollars, while last year's number was 334 million US dollars.
The big leap is also connected with the increasing need for laptops in the country, which is growing at the rate of 30 to 40 percent per year. However unfortunately, this healthy growth has only been harvested by China. "The market growth is 30 to 40 percent last year (2009)," stated Djunaedi, deputy chairman for production of the Indonesian Computer Entrepreneurs Association, to Kontan.
The national industry has been powerless to stop the import because there is no laptop manufacturing industry in the country. The reasons are rather cliche, that there are no supporting industries to manufacture laptops, e.g. industries for semiconductors, chips, microprocessors, and integrated circuits (IC).
"There are no semiconductor and IC industries in Indonesia, while those are the main upstream industries for laptops or mobile phones," stated director for telematics industry for the Department of Industry, Ramon Bangun. He stated that the semiconductor industry that had been in Indonesia relocated to Malaysia due to labor policy issues.
If the laptop industry in the country can't be developed then there should be a mutual commitment, which includes the head of state, to come up with a strategy to start a semiconductor industry in Indonesia. The industry, Ramon pointed out, will require human resources and research from universities.
kompas.com / 03/10/2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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