Review Ekonomi Pertekstilan dan Pengembangan Rami di Indonesia

The economic turmoils started in 1997 had affected Indonesian textile industry and the textile product industries. Many factories had sent their workers home due to their difficulty to import cotton fibre as raw material. Indonesian production of cotton is just less than 4 % of industry requirement.Textile and textile product industry had contributed to national economic considerably and employment. Most Indonesian regions are not suitable for cotton. An experiment was conducted to detect water stress in Bandung, andhad been conducted in ( Bandung, Sumedang, Majalengka) 2000-2001, 2002 and 2007, the latest experiment in 2015.Response: physiological (leaf chlorophyll contents, leaf relative water content), growth and yields (number of stem, length of stem, diameter of stem, fine fibreweight,and fine fibre diameter)There were found that ramie plant is robust plant. Nitrogen and potassium are important nutrients for growth and better fibre quality. Textile industry and the product of textile industry contributed to the national revenue second only the the revenue from gas and petroleum.