Joko Widodo wears a protective mask at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on Nov 13, 2020. The Indonesian president called on ministers and officials on Thursday to support locally made products. (Photo:Reuters)
JAKARTA: Indonesian President Joko Widodo has called on his cabinet ministers and other government officials to push a “hate foreign products” campaign to support the country’s small-and-medium enterprises.
In a speech to open a national meeting of government officials dealing with trade affairs on Thursday, the president said, “Calls for loving Indonesian products must continuously be echoed.”
“Echo calls for hating foreign products as well,” he said in the meeting, which was also attended by trade attaches of foreign embassies in Jakarta.
The president, widely known as “Jokowi,” said strong…
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