"Every year in the Indonesian Creative Product Week (PPKI), IT and fashion always become icons," Euis Saedah, the PPKI organizing committee chairwoman concurrently the industry ministry`s director general of small and medium-scale industries, said here Wednesday.
"The IT sector and research as well as technology are boosting the creative industries in Indonesia," he said.
The fashion industry had developed well and contributed significantly to the gross domestic product.
In 2008, the fashion industry contributed 3.1 percent from the gross domestic product and 63.3 percent of the creative industry total exports amounting to Rp104.71 trillion.
In the fashion sub-sector, Muslim dress production has played a significant role in boosting the fashion industry growth.
According to the trade ministry`s data, the creative economic industry exports in 2010 reached US$131 billion, up around 1.5 time from US$85 billion in 2006.
"The 131 billion US dollar did not include those from exports in the service sector," Trade Minister Mari Elka Pangestu said here recently when officially kicking off the Fifth PPKI 2011.
Since 2006 to 2010, the creative industry contribution to the gross domestic product increased from 7.4 percent to 7.7 percent.
The added value of creative industry also rose from Rp157 trillion in 2006 to Rp486 trillion in 2010.
Meanwhile, Vice President Boediono in his opening remarks underscored the need for the country to build industrial networks which support the creative industry to enable it to grow in a stable and sound manner.
"It is the duties of all of us, the government and business players, to systematically build industrial networks which support the creative industry. We should know what supporting industries are needed to develop our creative industry," he said when opening the Indonesia Creative Products Week 2011 (PPKI 2011) at the Jakarta Convention Center recently.
"Without supporting industries, our (creative) industry will be fragile," he said.
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