Kalau kita banyak mengimpor mesin dan peralatan mekanik atau peralatan listrik, rasanya bisa dimaklumi. Kalau kita mengimpor besi dan baja dan beragam produk petrokimia, mungkin bisa dimaklumi walaupun sebagiannya karena lemahnya kebijakan industrial.
Kalau kita mengimpor kwaci, kacang guruh, dan ting ting, kita mulai mengelus dada.
Ketiga produk ini dikemas khusus untuk pasar Indonesia, diproduksi di luar negeri, di China.
Ada juga yang bahan bakunya melimpah di Indonesia, tetapi diproses di luar negeri, lalu produk akhirnya yang sudah dikemas dipasarkan di Indonesia seperti gambar di bawah.
Faisal Basri is currently senior lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia and Chief of Advisory Board of Indonesia Research & Strategic Analysis (IRSA). His area of expertise and discipline covers Economics, Political Economy, and Economic Development.
His prior engagement includes Economic Adviser to the President of Republic of Indonesia on economic affairs (2000); Head of the Department of Economics and Development Studies, Faculty of Economics at the University of Indonesia (1995-98); and Director of Institute for Economic and Social Research at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Indonesia (1993-1995), the Commissioner of the Supervisory Commission for Business Competition (2000-2006); Rector, Perbanas Business School (1999-2003).
He was the founder of the National Mandate Party where he was served in the Party as the first Secretary General and then the Deputy Chairman responsible for research and development. He quit the Party in January 2001. He has actively been involved in several NGOs, among others is The Indonesian Movement.
Faisal Basri was educated at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Indonesia where he received his BA in 1985 and graduated with an MA in economics from Vanderbilt University, USA, in 1988.
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