Textile and textile product exports contributed 22.38 percent of the country`s non-oil/non-gas exports and 14.45 percent of industrial product exports over the period, the ministry`s director of industrial and mining product exports, Hartojo Agus Tjahjono said here on Friday.
In the past five years, textile and textile product exports contributed 12.45 percent of the non-oil/non-gas exports and 14.81 percent of the industrial product exports annually, he said.

He said improving productivity, efficiency and competitiveness was a key to penetrating the increasingly competitive global market for textiles and textile products.

Hartojo Agus was here to present 75 sewing and embroidering machines worth Rp250 million from the ministry to small and medium enterpreneurs at Gayuhan village.

“This assistance is aimed at supporting SMEs to produce textile products of high quality,” he said.

The aid was symbolically handed over to Pacitan district head H Sujono.

“Making an efficient and optimum use of sewing and embroidering machines will help improve the quality of SMEs` products, increase their capacity and production which will eventually boost the nearby people`s economy,” he said.
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