The COVID-19 outbreak has a detrimental impact on the world economy, without exception Australia's, so that some even .
But it's not all bad.
The Indonesian food import industry in Australia is one of the businesses seeing a positive impact, with two new Indonesian snacks starting to fill the shelves of the Australian supermarket giant, Coles, at the end of May.
Anthony Auwyang, Managing Director and owner of one Sydney-based import company Sony Trading, told SBS Indonesian that it is a positive breakthrough in which Indonesian products are recognised as having quality and packaging that are on par with other countries including Australia, so that Coles wants to market them.
Mr. Auwyang also said that his company, which imported these two new products, experiences an increase in sales due to lockdown and the large number of people forced to work from home during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Listen to the full conversation in this podcast.
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