Government Encourages Use of the National Rubber for Selling High Value Products

The Ministry of Industry to encourage increased use of rubber-based products in the country, considering that Indonesia has tremendous potential on this.

Director of Downstream Chemical Industry, the Ministry of Industry, Herman Supriya, stating that, in Jakarta, Monday (25/04/2016).
"The potential that can be developed into rubber products that can meet the needs of the domestic and global markets," he said.
Some production of rubber-based products in the country that can be used is rubber tires, rubber gloves, conveyor belt, prisoners dock, rubber hoses and rubber thread.
These products is currently applied to various types of industries such as the automotive industry, the mining industry, to improve infrastructure in Indonesia.
Herman adds, the fact remains that a manufacturer of rubber goods in the country already has the technological capability to produce a wide range of high value added products, as evidenced by the receipt of a variety of domestic products in the export market.
"This phenomenon is an urgency for all stakeholders in the country to attempt to develop the downstream sector of the rubber industry," he said.
As the largest rubber producer after Thailand, Indonesia has the largest land which 3.56 million hectares with a production of 3.15 million tons per year.
However, land productivity only reached 994 kilograms per hectare per year, still below Malaysia and Thailand, which reached 1,690 kilograms per hectare per year for Thailand and 1,430 kilograms per hectare per year for Malaysia.
According to Herman, the natural rubber produced is mostly exported in the form of raw and semi-finished like Technically Specified Rubber / Standard Indonesian Rubber (TSR / SIR), Ribbed Smoked Sheet (RSS), concentrated latex and rubber compounds by 84 percent.
"Only about 16 percent further processed into value-added products," he said.
As 50 per cent of domestic consumption of natural rubber is absorbed by the tire industry, 22 percent by the glove industry and the rest for other products.

Source: kompasnews