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Creative Industry Targets 8% Contribution to the GDP

BY ROSMIYATI DEWI KANDI

JAKARTA (IFT) – The Ministry of Trade targets the sales of national creative industry will be able to contribute 8 percent to this year’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The creative industry contributed 7.2 percent to Indonesia’s 2010 GDP of Rp 6,422 trillion or around Rp 462.38 trillion (US$ 53.636 billion).

Hesti Indah Kresnarini, Director General of National Export Development of the Ministry of Trade, said of the Rp 462.38 trillion, fashion products gave the highest contribution of 40 percent or Rp 184.95 trillion, followed by handicraft products of 24 percent or Rp 110.97 trillion, and the rest by 12 other sectors.

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