Indonesia Begin Worldwide Fashion Industry

Correspondents Report KOMPAS Orin Basuki
JAMBI, KOMPAS.com - Indonesia wants to make the world dressed with muslim clothes from the fashion industry in the country. On this basis, Indonesia proclaimed itself as the World Muslim Qibla Fashion in 2010.

"With the declaration of Indonesia as a Muslim Qibla Fashion World, Indonesia has many recognized, including in schools fashion designers in Singapore. That shows Indonesia has begun to operate globally," said Deputy Industry and Trade Coordination Division, Ministry of Economic Coordination, said Edy Putra Irawadi in Jambi , on Tuesday (17/11/2010) night.

In the same place, the Director of Indonesian Islamic Fashion Consortium (IIFC) Gilarsi Revelation Setijono say, from now on will be done in three steps toward 2020. The first step is to increase awareness or knowledge, both at home and abroad. ''By how much socialization and even held a fashion show, "he added.

The second phase is to build infrastructure by establishing a center of commercial sales at home and abroad. ''The third is development of infrastructure development, ie establishing Muslim schools so famous fashion to foreign countries, "confident.

Gilarsi added, Muslim clothing exports in 2020 expected to reach 50 billion U.S. dollars. "In that year, the market was 500 billion dollars of products the U.S.. Well, we take 10 percent," he said.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the Association of Designers, Taruna Kusumayadi suggested that the whole fabric of traditional craftsmen in Indonesia involving fashion designers in product development, especially in the coloration and pattern formation. In this way, Indonesian Muslim clothing can be developed on generic products such as those developed leading brands in the world.

"Actually it was very different fashion designers to craftsmen. Craftsmen to develop their talents to the effort of his ancestors from generation to generation, resulting in a stagnant market," he said.

Vice Governor of Jambi, Fachrori Umar said, the potential market within the country itself has countless big for the domestic Muslim fashion industry, because 26 percent of Muslims in the world is in Indonesia. Creativity in design and modeling have made Muslim clothing industry in developing countries.

"Provision of design and the readiness of the domestic industry was enough to break the fashion world. Development of Islamic fashion is a concrete step to improve the real sector," he said.



Wednesday, November 17, 2010 16:38 pm

Editor: Glori K. Wadrianto