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Jakarta (AFP) - An economic expert worried about the implementation of ASEAN Free Trade - China will damage the domestic industry due to industrial goods from China will be more and more people of Indonesia and vice versa purchased domestic goods less behavior.

"After CAFTA into effect earlier this year, foreign products, especially from China flooding and get rid of national products. Deindustralisasi to-be and worrying," said Professor Sri Edi Swasono in discussions held LKBN BETWEEN and Agro Economics Foundation.

ASEAN Free Trade Agreement with China RR into effect January 1, 2010 and most of the import duty has been reduced to an average of zero to five percent.

This economic _Pakar asserted that although the Indonesian government agreed to a free market in its various forms, does not mean that the domestic industry should be left devastated by an unbalanced competition with similar products from other countries nefara.

"It would not hurt anyone accused that we are narrow minded nationalism, and no great exalted vision of modern nationalism. But let the country eaten when liberalism and became the object of the international market, which is like a child's responsibility" jaim "(keep the image, red) is a slogan "origin are guy let me arrogant," said Sri Edi Swasono ang known to be very critical.