Jakarta, Sept. 26 -- Indonesia's Industry Ministry is optimizing the use of domestic products to drive increased value-added in the national industry while strengthening production capacity, supply chains, investment and labor absorption.

Industry Minister Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita emphasized that leveraging Indonesia's vast internal market is crucial for building a resilient industrial ecosystem and enhancing global competitiveness.

"Utilizing domestic products is part of the effort to build an increasingly strong industrial ecosystem," Minister Agus said in a statement on Saturday.

"When national industrial products secure a wider market, production capacity can be utilized more optimally, thereby generating a multiplier effect on i...