During 2016, the Indonesian province of east footwear exports more than $2015 in the same period in 2015, a 4.05% reduction in be $502.724 million.

Indonesian footwear association east provincial branch chairman corvino told reporters in surabaya, footwear exports decline because no ability to compete with Vietnam, and eastern Europe, especially because the government to the government.

His response to the central bureau of statistics, east province branch data, said: "we have always called for the government to enhance and export markets, but the government clearly has not been implemented."

For example, because of distance and prices of Indonesia and the United States, Indonesia footwear products more expensive import duty was imposed, and 4.95% higher than Vietnam.

At the same time, consumers prefer to import footwear from eastern Europe, Western Europe because of the distance and the price is cheaper.

"The process of the footwear from eastern Europe to Western Europe only need 2 days, and footwear from Indonesia to Western Europe's journey to three weeks, even 1 month time. In addition, buyers usually also requests from Western Europe must use their raw materials," he says.

And eastern Europe to Western Europe products to impose import duties, it is more advantageous to buy from Western Europe.

"Footwear imports from Indonesia, would place an import tax of 5%, as a result, from eastern Europe to Western Europe's footwear price 10% to 15% can be cheaper," he said.

Even so, he confirmed, Indonesia or in Asia's fourth-largest footwear manufacturers, the market share of 4.4%.

In addition, in Asia's largest producer of footwear or China, and India, Vietnam, and Indonesia.