In my opinion Polytron TV is similar in quality compared to Japanese/Korean ones. Actually they have gotten good market share in Indonesia for their electronics product. The company has been there since long time ago and the TV that I used for the first time in my life was Politron TV and we used the TV for quite long time even until I reach junior high school the TV was still used. They already have R& D department since 1982 and can make 10 new products every year (you can see on the link about the information).
The company never enter low end electronic products like making fans and others, they try to stay at high end product to keep and raise their brand image in the country and abroad. We also have another electronics company who focus on low end products (Maspion) and compete with Chinese made products in our domestic market. Some focus only on computer (Zyrex, Axioo) and handphone (advand, mito, evercoss) while others like state owned ones and some private owned ones focus on corporate (industrial) and defense products market.
In my opinion, in order to make Polytron get better export penetration, Indonesia should improve their national brand so that people outside Indonesia believe that we can make good quality products as well. Consumer market is different with corporate markets, consumer tend to rely more on brand image while corporate market (B2B) is still willing to get products from third world countries if the quality is also good.
This is why KFX/IFX program is important for Indonesia, not only for our aerospace industry but for greater impact as the world would see Indonesia as one of the country that is trusted by Korean to develop 5 generation fighter together.
Indonesia has set up 5 priorities industries to grow our industry and export figure, and electronics industry is one of them.
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