The Indonesian textile industry has been hit by illegal imports in recent years. The total volume of textile product sales in the country in 2007 was 1,220,000 tons (up by 20% from the previous year) and of those 270,000 tons were domestic products (a drop of 42.9%) and the rest were imported products (both officially and illegally imported). The total amount of sales of textile products in the country in 2007 is estimated to reach $6.71 billion, but official statistics say only $1.97 billion. Therefore, the difference, $4.74 billion, is considered to be illegally imported, indicating that illegally-imported products account for 70% of the total amount of textile product sales.

The Indonesian Textile Industries Association has proposed that the government carry out the following two policies in order to protect the domestic textile industry against illegally imported goods; to allow import textile products to enter the country only through two ports, Jakarta's Tanjung Priok and Surabaya's Tanjung Perak, and to increase import duty on textiles from 15% to 25%.