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Tue, 05/26/2009 - 17:50
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RATTAN INDUSTRIES FACING RAW MATERIAL SCARCITIES
Jakarta, May 26 (ANTARA) - Rattan industries in a number of regions in Indonesia are facing difficulties in finding raw materials for their products in the past few months, a rattan industry businesswoman said.
Yetti Husna of West Java said here on Tuesday that the scarcity of raw rattan had forced her to use rattan wastes as raw material for her handicraft products.
As a result, Yetti who made the statement during a handicraft exhibition in a Hall of the Ministry of Industry, said that the quality of her products had therefore declined.
She said that there were about 200 rattan handicraftsmen grouped in her business. She said that if the scarcity of rattan raw materials continued it would pose a threat to the employment of her handicraftsmen, most of whom were graduates of extraordinary schools (SLB, or schools for the blind).
"As regard to marketing, we have no problem so far because we always produce innovative products and have work contracts with a number of companies," she said.
In the meantime, Director for Industrial Handicraft Affairs of the Ministry of Industry Tri Reni Budiarti said that inter-departmental agencies were now discussing the scarcity of raw rattan in the country.
"We are now debating the problems of raw rattan scarcity, whether or not we can export rattan," she said.***2***
Yetti Husna of West Java said here on Tuesday that the scarcity of raw rattan had forced her to use rattan wastes as raw material for her handicraft products.
As a result, Yetti who made the statement during a handicraft exhibition in a Hall of the Ministry of Industry, said that the quality of her products had therefore declined.
She said that there were about 200 rattan handicraftsmen grouped in her business. She said that if the scarcity of rattan raw materials continued it would pose a threat to the employment of her handicraftsmen, most of whom were graduates of extraordinary schools (SLB, or schools for the blind).
"As regard to marketing, we have no problem so far because we always produce innovative products and have work contracts with a number of companies," she said.
In the meantime, Director for Industrial Handicraft Affairs of the Ministry of Industry Tri Reni Budiarti said that inter-departmental agencies were now discussing the scarcity of raw rattan in the country.
"We are now debating the problems of raw rattan scarcity, whether or not we can export rattan," she said.***2***
