Related Keywords: BKPM, garment industry, Indonesian government plan to apply tax allowance, Investment Coordinating Board, labour intensive industries, textile business community
Indonesian government is planning to apply existing tax allowances to labour-intensive industries that includes garment industry in an effort to reach its 2-million-a-year job-creation target. However, at the moment the allowance applies to just 129 business sectors, ranging from plantations to real estate.