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JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Trade laptops primarily the result of imports from China have increased rapidly. However, fate was not as good as a PC laptop sales.

Wijaya Suhanda Chairman of Indonesian Computer Business Association (Apkomindo) claimed, the market decline in sales of personal computers or PCs alias. Unfortunately, he did not have any data how much of the decline in PC sales.

However, he could only forecast sales of PCs this year only 40 percent of the total computer market. "If that laptop sales are 60 percent, the remaining 40 percent is a PC," said Suhanda, Monday (12/07/2010).

In the period January to April 2010 sales of laptop and netbook China reached 301 849 567; up 181.24 percent from the same period in 2009 that listed 107 329 726 percent. The increase in imports from China valued laptops still quite reasonable because the product is not produced in Indonesia.

Head of Research and Development, Ministry of Commerce, Muchtar said, a laptop and a netbook is a technological device, the increase was highly related to people's purchasing power has improved.

"Indonesia's imports because it is needed to propel its domestic economy," said Muchtar. (Cash / Asnil Bambani Amri)