Manufacturers around the world often need assistance in identifying and developing overseas markets for their products. To help Indonesian manufacturers, the National Agency For Export Development (NAFED) was set up in 1971 as a special service agency of the Ministry of Trade, now the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

NAFED's Mission is :

• To formulate policy and establish guidelines for encouraging and supporting the expansion of non-oil and gas exports
• To provide information services and market co-ordination
• To implement and co-ordinate export promotion
• To expand the range of export products and markets.