Indonesia launches website to promote creative industry

The Indonesian government has launched a website to promote the country's growing creative industry by providing information and displaying products, a paper said in Jakata Thursday.

Indonesian Trade Minister Mari Elka Pangestu quoted by the Jakarta Post as saying that the website would eventually be developed as an online shopping destination for companies involved in the industry.

"Our creative industry has contributed greatly to the country' s GDP, employs a significant number of people, and supports our exports. We should develop it further," she said on after the launch of the website on Wednesday.

The minister said the Indonesia Creative portal at website address www.indonesiakreatif.net provided not only various information on the developments in the domestic creative industry and its products but is a means for buyers and sellers to come together.

Source: Xinhua