TEXTILE INDUSTRY IN INDONESIA AMIDST THE IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

This paper discusses the political economic situation during the economy in textile and textile products companies trying to diversify products by producing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and masks as a strategy to survive in the midst of the impact of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic that hit almost all joints in Indonesia caused by the Covid19 pandemic. Using david ricardo's theory of comparative excellence, this paper tries to show that the textile industry switches the function of producing personal protective equipment or medical devices as well as economic disruptions due to the impact of coronavirus.


INTRODUCTION
Economic growth goes wrong one indicator that can be used by a country to assess and evaluate development conditions economy in the country (Harakan, 2020;Rassanjani, Harakan, Pintobtang & Jermsittiparsert, 2019). Growth Economics is a process of changing conditions the economy continuous towards a state that is better over a period of time. Economic growth can also be interpreted as a process of increasing production capacity an economy embodied in form of increase in national income (Prasojo, Putri, & Hariyati, 2021;Rinaldi, Jamal, & Seftarita, 2017;Wulandari & Zuhri, 2019).
Indonesia's economy in 2019 grew 5.02 percent, lower than the 5.17 percent achieved in 2018. In terms of production, the production profit of Other Service  In addition, Statistics Indonesia (BPS) data revealed that in the last 10 years textile export growth is less than 3%, whereas imports grew by more than 20%. The Company also strengthened its focus on the uniform segment and maintained efforts to increase its retail. The Company also actively participates in auctions held by various government agencies, state-owned enterprises, hospitals, private companies, and universities to continue expanding its market.
Data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) shows that the production of the apparel industry experienced significant growth of 15.29 percent. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Industry targets, exports from the national TPT industry will penetrate up to USD15 billion throughout 2019. Increased production capacity in goods and services Physical services in accordance with a certain period of time will certainly have a positive effect on economic engagement (Indayani & Hartono, 2020;Santosa, 2020). Surely Industrialization or private need to collaborate andcreating several breakthroughs and finding a way out to survive economic disruptions (Purnomo, 2016), such as those made by textile companies trying to diversify products by producing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and masks as a strategy to survive in the midst of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19) that hit almost all economic joints and a massive decline in exports.

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
Based on the explanation above, where economic disruptions due to Covid-19 have had a major impact in the textile sector, the purpose of this research is to look at and describe textile companies and textile products trying to diversify products by producing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and masks as a strategy to survive in the midst of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19) that hit almost all joints in Indonesia caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Interconnectedness or cooperation in the world of business or export has its role to develop national economic growth (Hu & Yao, 2022). Based on that, I prefer the demand side. Offer is the number of goods offered by the manufacturer where the manufacturer is able to provide it (Gregory, 2006). The offer of an item is influenced by the price of the item by reference to the legal offer that reads. If the price of goods rises then the number of goods offered will also rise assuming and vice versa ceteris paribus. In addition to the price factor of the number of goods  (3) there is perfect labor mobility within the country but no mobility between the two countries (4) constant production costs (5) no transportation costs (6) no technological changes. this paper, in that case, the key to the need and export of goods to a country is the need that creates economic growth is international trade. In his view, in international trade, a supply market is the opposite of the demand side and can continue to trade even if one country does not have an absolute advantage or in other words has an absolute disadvantage to another country in producing two goods (Ricardo, 2005).

RESEARCH METHODS
Method used for this paper is qualitative research method. According to Afifuddin & Saebani (2009) Qualitative research method is a research method used in to examine the condition of natural objects, (the opponent is an experiment) where researchers are a key instrument, data collection techniques are carried out triangulation (combined), data analysis is inductive, and the results of research qualitatively emphasizes meaning rather than generalization. pandemic has spread to various countries in the world (Kashyap, Rathore, & Tripathi, 2021). So the demand for PPE also increased dramatically. Therefore, many textile industry players switch their regular production to mask and PPE products. This step is carried out to meet the needs of these products in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic covid-19 that is currently spreading in Indonesia, as well as to meet the production gap during the pandemic.
Textile and textile products companies (TPT) try to diversify their products by both masks and PPE are the most demanded products in Indonesia (Siburian, 2020).
According to the data we obtained from respondents through google questioner shared form, 69.2% of respondents stated that the value of exports decreased during the pandemic Covid19. In addition, respondents revealed that the thing that is exported is a basic necessity. in addition, the government has full attention to the health protocols in order to develop economic growth through the export sector. Data can be seen according to the chart below:

CONCLUSION
Based on the above discussions, global economic disruptions such as The Covid19 pandemic, especially in Indonesia, has a big impact in the economic sector, especially in the textile sector. The impact resulted in a decrease in exports, until sritex company cooperated with the government to continue to run textile business for the present needs during the pandemic. It is intended for the company and the people in Indonesia today. From there I concluded that the pandemic not only adversely affects the national economy, but textile companies try to diversify products by producing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and masks as a strategy to survive the impact of the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19) with anticipation of the widespread impact of declining exports on the company's revenues in addition to taking such diversification strategies with products such as masks and PPE equipment to be marketed in the country is the right step and prioritize economic growth during the pandemic as a joint priority , without us knowing that there is an impact that is force majeur at this time.