Handicraft exports expected to increase<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The National Agency for Export Development
\nforecasts Indonesia's handicraft exports will surge 15 percent to
\nUS$575 million this year from $500 million in 2000.<\/p>\n
Gusmardi Bustami, the head of the agency, said the forecast
\nwas based on an expected increase in demand for the country's
\nproducts from Japan.<\/p>\n
\"Main buyers such as Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong now prefer
\nAsian-style handicrafts,\" he said \"The shift will benefit us.\"<\/p>\n
\"Indonesia's handicrafts have an ethnic style and are
\nattractive to the Japanese, but the Japanese seldom find these
\nhandicrafts in Japanese stores,\" Noriku Okura, the senior trade
\nadviser at the Japan External Trade Organization, said.<\/p>\n
She said Japan's middle to high-end handicraft market share
\nwas going to increase rapidly from between 20 percent and 25
\npercent last year, but she declined to give any exact numbers.<\/p>\n
According to the Central Bureau of Statistic, Indonesia
\nexported about $150.3 million worth of handicrafts to the United
\nStates during the first 10 months of 2000, or about 35 percent of
\nthe country's total handicraft exports.<\/p>\n
Singapore accounted for 13 percent, or $53.55 million, of the
\ncountry's total handicraft exports between January and October
\nlast year. Japan accounted for 9.7 percent, or $40 million,
\nduring this period, England 8.7 percent, or $35.7 million,
\nGermany 5 percent, or $20 million, and Hong Kong 4.1 percent or
\n$17.14 million.<\/p>\n
Gusmardi added that furniture exports were expected to
\nincrease by 20 percent to $1.8 billion from $1.5 billion last
\nyear.(05)<\/p>",
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