Consumption of detergent increasing up to 499,100 tons in 2002.(Industry) From: Indonesian Commercial Newsletter | Date: January 13, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2004 P.T. Data Consult, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The country's consumption of detergent has continued to increase from year to year to follow the population growth and the trend of the people's income. Supply through imports of detergent in the past five years was relatively small as the domestic production is already sufficient to meet the domestic requirement. On the contrary exports increased in the 19972002 period--from 14,780 tons to 77,565 tons.

Assuming that supply is entirely used up in the country, market dem...