2008 in the first half of the year, Indonesia has a total of 25 shoe-making enterprises was 170,000,000 U.S. dollars of investment, of which 21 are from China and South Korea invested enterprises.
local agencies show that these 25 companies have already absorbed 47,000 labor force, production of shoes each year up to 286,500,000 pairs. Indonesian Ministry of Industry Secretary industrial Budi Yi Ma Wan said that foreign-funded enterprises to invest in Indonesia due to the footwear industry in the country has a large number of high-quality raw materials. General Chairman of the Indonesian Footwear Association, Richard Nake Aidi Wei said that in 2008 Indonesia shoe exports to grow 20%, with exports amounting to 1.9 billion. He said that Indonesia would be ranked in China, Vietnam and India, the world's fourth largest producer of footwear products.