Indonesian textile industry will be modest growth in 2013, for domestic textile industry faced with some domestic challenges, including electricity and rise in the minimum wage workers, coupled with the continued economic crisis in the developed countries, such as the European Union and the United States.

In an interview with India media Fibre2fashion, Indonesian textile association secretary-general Asep Setiaharja Mr Said: "we still expect Indonesia textile industry is in growth stage. However, the developed countries, such as the United States and the European Union, the economy has yet to fully recover, our textile export growth will not exceed 5%, lower than last year.

According to his introduction, to raise wages and electricity and affecting the textile products manufacturing. Some asean countries are developing new manufacturing industry, they are going to clothing industry as a starting point, Indonesia has a complete value chain of the textile industry, apparel production, but production of textiles, we hope that we can put our textile exports to clothing manufacturing countries.

He said, "in the textile business, Indonesia and India have more competition, therefore, from the association of southeast Asian nations (asean) - India free trade agreement came into effect on January 1, 2010, we benefit from not too much."

He added: "our clothing brands in India has not been well recognized that we need to try to promote their brands, let them get better recognition in India."

The source "of Chinese textile net"