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Indonesian Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) is committed to providing support to increase exports of domestic manufacturing products. One of them is the export of aircraft manufactured by PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PT DI). It was recently stated by Deputy for Mining, Strategic Industry and Media Department of the Ministry, Fajar Harry Sampurno when visiting the Rotary Wing Hangar, Production Area II of PT Dirgantara Indonesia (DI), Bandung West Java in a series of activities to commemorate the Anniversary and Awarding Day of the company. According to Fajar, Exports of aircraft made by PT DI contributed large amounts of foreign exchange to the country. He explained that the foreign exchange generated by the export of three NC 212 aircraft made by PT DI to Vietnam was the same as the export of 200,000 tons of coal or 1000 cars.

“It’s quite large. I’ve said that the three planes which are exported to Vietnam is the same as 200,000 tons of coal or 1,000 cars. Then for Krakatau Steel it was almost 1 trillion rupiah. There was PT Barata that exported bogies for trains. So, we export a lot of products especially manufacturing products. All of their foreign exchange, 100 percent returns to Indonesia,” said Fajar Harry Sampurno..

Furthermore Fajar said that the Indonesian Government through the Ministry of SOEs will continue to support PT Dirgantara Indonesia (DI) to continue and improve its work domestically and abroad. So, PT DI can continue to contribute more to the economic growth, especially when Indonesia is experiencing a weakening of the rupiah. Therefore PT DI was encouraged to continue to increase export sales. In the long run, it is also hoped that PTDI will also continue to improve its production competitiveness so that it can continue to expand its wings, not only in Asian countries but also in European, American and African countries. The Indonesian government continues to encourage PT DI to continue to renew and improve the capacity and capabilities of Human Resources (HR). In addition, the design and manufacture of aircraft in the country will ultimately also encourage the value of the Domestic Content Level through the empowerment of local industries. (VOI/Rezha/AHM)