Cirebon rattan furniture from crafts to exporters

Cirebon was not only known as a city of shrimp, especially in the region III Cirebon. Section whose booming business here is not just the shrimp, but the rattan furniture. View the five districts of the region, namely, Kuningan, Majalengka, Indramayu, Cirebon and Cirebon city, can easily be found on the company or rattan craft almost in some corners.

Among the companies standing paddy rattan furniture surrounded by high walls. Back in the side streets, as in the Karangsari village, district Weru, Cirebon district, business theater production of wicker furniture is something very special.

Business Cirebon rattan furniture and the pulse seemed inseparable. Now, more than 400,000 living of rattan furniture. Although rattan is not new to the local community, the triumph of the ridge rattan occurs when the government stopped the export of raw rattan wicker furniture random-1986.

According to recognize from the export of rattan furniture in Cirebon, that not too Crafts rattan furniture waste every year of the graphic above. According to the Indonesian Association of Furniture Industry & Handicraft (Asmindo) of the Regional Commission Cirebon Cirebon Regency Depperindag data sources cited in 1999 with a value of $ 84,380,000 in 2000 to Rp 91.55 million U.S. dollars, the 2003 was $ 101 , and $ 67,000,000 in 2004 to approximately U.S. $ 116.57.

What ever exported, the value of exports of new furniture in Cirebon rattan and not contain artificial rattan furniture on Cirebon Jakarta or other cities in Indonesia.

"In the year 1995 we can still compete with rattan furniture in China, but China now can not be underestimated. In terms of design and quality, they are no less of our products, while prices may be much less expensive than the products of Indonesian rattan furniture, "said H Sumartja, President of the Regional Commissioner rattan furniture are also entrepreneurs Asmindo Cirebon CV Sari Bloom.

The "powerful" of China as a manufacturer of rattan furniture rattan furniture are also about other entrepreneurs like Handiyono Toni, Assistant Director of resume Kotska Sentosa Adhi concerned founded in 2000. He said that remain if the rattan exports of raw materials continue to be prohibited, as now, the year 2006, the rattan furniture industry will be further strengthened. But on the contrary, when the export of raw rattan is approved, the rattan furniture industry will decline in the country, even lead to death.

"There are more than 80 percent of raw materials, rattan in Indonesia. If rattan is processed at our own plants, I am sure that the buyers will return to the bin rattan furniture in Indonesia attack," said Toni, who try to show a year, at least five to 10 containers a new design of rattan furniture, and the means to export about 100 per year, with a value of about $ 000 per container 6000-1000.

Without fanfare, extend to the industry Cirebon rattan furniture for buyers overseas. They not only keep workers who are full-time work in the factory, but also thousands of residents, which the company rattan furniture, to support their own four walls.

Haryati, deputy director of the CV of Granada, said the company of other rattan furniture that established since its founding in 1992, they had "common" Working with the local population. For example, the task of weaving cane, the Company has 30 sub-contractors, each employing about 20-25 people, the more work Weaver.