Aussie Textiles is a Queensland medium-sized manufacturer of quality garments. Due to increased competition from cheaper imported goods, the company is contemplating the establishment of a manufacturing plant in Asia to reduce the cost of manufacturing at home. The company has identified Indonesia as a potential country for the establishment of the overseas manufacturing plant. You are required to identifying the advantages and disadvantages of operating in that country.
In preparing your report, you are required to link your arguments to the course content, and to use relevant data to support your suggestion as to why the selected country would be appropriate (or inappropriate) for the overseas expansion.

Format / Expectations:
• All resources used in your report must be dated no earlier than 2008, and no undated resources may be used.
• Please have at least 12 reference, at least 7 internet reference (academic journal, Global news etc)

Please look at three areas and finding reference/ facts to support the argument for advantages and disadvantage in setting the overseas manufacturing plant in Indonesia.
Please no need to do any introduction and conclusion. Please go straight away to discuss the advantages and disadvantages, and to straight away discuss the data and finding from the academic journal.

Please divide the whole work into three parts.
1. Regionalisation.- (look Chapter 9- Regionalisation for detail) (200 words)
– Please look at the chapter 9 that I send you in attached.
– Please find some reference that can shows the recent news about Indonesia, for example if Indonesia had join any economic union (such as Europe union etc)? This might affect the free trade possibility with Australia? Or the union Indonesia join might help or harm the Australian company’s operation? Please at least find 1-2 current news about Indonesia and discuss how it will benefit or harmful Aussie Textiles to have their oversea plant in Indonesia.
– Please look at the lecture slide I send you as well.
– Around 4-6 internet academic journal reference for this part
– Please also talk about how the law (trading, import and export law)and legal system in Indonesia will bring in advantages or disadvantages.
2. Assessing Global Market Opportunities. . (look Chapter 13 for detail) (300 words)
– Please look at the chapter 13 that I send you in attached.
– This part will more about giving some recommendation for Aussie Textiles in terms of the pros and cons about Indonesia.
– This part will be teaching Aussie Textiles what to do, and how to use Indonesia’s good feature to make them success.
– Please see p.366 of text book I send you in attached. There is a strategy and opportunity assessment for international environment, which can help giving some recommendation and feedback for Aussie Textiles in making decision.
– Please also talk about the assessing industry market potential (p.387). Don’t use the reference mentioned from the textbook. The lecturer said the reference appear in the textbook cannot be used in the assignment.
– Around 6-8 internet academic journal reference for this part

3. Set up cost, break even time, return on investment (point form is fine) (70 words)
– Please find some reference which will mentioned about the set-up cost of plant and equipment in Indonesia.
– Also mentioned the possible break even time
– Estimation of return on investment will be necessary as well.
– Please find some real facts or example that can support the estimation.
– This part can be done in point form.
– Around 3-5 internet academic journal reference for this part