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Indonesia is one of the major clove producers in the world. The majority of clove used as the main ingredient of clove cigarette (kretek) industry. The decreasing trend of clove cigarettes demands caused alternative industries development besides the clove cigarette industry are needed. The purposes of this paper are to analyze policies related to Indonesian cloves, analyze the development of alternative clove industries and their challenges as a green industry in the future. This research is a literature study. Government policies related to the clove industry are still focused on efforts to fulfill cloves for the cigarettes industry and have not yet led to the development of other cloves industry besides cigarettes industry. This has led to the development of other manufacturing industries such as essential oil as a potential export commodity that has not received serious attention from the government. The development of cloves agro-industry is expected to not only encourage the development of green industry, increase export values but also improve the welfare of farmers.